African American Review

Quarterly journal unites writers and scholars to share views about African American culture and literature.

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• "You have no business to whip me": the freedom suits of Polly Wash and Lucy Ann Delaney

  As recounted in Lucy Delaney's c.1891 slave narrative From the Darkness Cometh the Light, in 1829, Missouri Supreme Court Judge Robert Wash, began to...

  3/22/07 by Eric Gardner · More from publication

• How the socialism of W. E. B. Du Bois still matters: black socialism in The Quest of the Silver Fleece—and beyond

  One prominent trend in African American and African diaspora studies involves the search for a more thoroughly egalitarian black politics, especially...

  3/22/07 by Mark Van Wienen Julie Kraft · More from publication

• Toward feminine mythopoetic visions: the poetry of Gayl Jones

  "The center of Song for Anninho is a love story and I also wanted to move beyond the 'blues relationships' of most of my earlier published...

  3/22/07 by Casey Clabough · More from publication

• Following her act: sequence and desire in Gayl Jones's The Healing

  Near the end of The Healing (1998), Gayl Jones's protagonist and narrator, Harlan Eagleton, undergoes an examination that compresses one of the...

  3/22/07 by David LaCroix · More from publication

• Literary free jazz? Mumbo Jumbo and Paradise: language and meaning

  Ishmael Reed's novel Mumbo Jumbo (1972) and Toni Morrison's Paradise (1998) stand as two crucial signposts identifying the trajectory of an African...

  3/22/07 by Keren Omry · More from publication

• "Do I look like someone you can come home to from where you may be going?": re-mapping interracial anxiety in Octavia Butler's Kindred

  Although Octavia Butler's 1979 novel about slavery and time-travel, Kindred, occupies a privileged position within the African American literary...

  3/22/07 by Guy Mark Foster · More from publication

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