African American Review

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Articles in Spring-Summer 2005 issue of African American Review

• Reading a "closet screenplay": Hollywood, James Baldwin's Malcolms and the threat of historical irrelevance
  by Brian Norman
• Clarence Major. One Flesh
  by Robert Butler
• "This thing called playwrighting": an interview with Sonia Sanchez on the art of her drama
  by Jacqueline Wood
• Nancy Morejon. Looking Within: Selected Poems, 1954-2000 / Mirar Adentro: Poemas Escogidos, 1954-2000
  by Carol Maier
• Reflecting violence in the warpland: Gwendolyn Brooks's Riot
  by Annette Debo
• Domestic epic warfare in Maud Martha
  by Valerie Frazier
• Mark Anthony Neal. Songs in the Key of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation
  by Heather Duerre Humann
• Art, activism, and uncompromising attitude in Georgia Douglas Johnson's lynching plays
  by Judith L. Stephens
• Gloria Naylor's Mama Day: bridging roots and routes
  by Daphne Lamothe
• After Vallejo
  by A.B. Spellman
• Osonye Tess Onweume. What Mama Said: An Epic Drama
  by N. Graham Nesmith
• Hiding fire and brimstone in lacy groves: the twinned trees of Beloved
  by Lorie Watkins Fulton
• Dear John Coltrane
  by A.B. Spellman
• "Pulling in the natural environment": an interview with Pinkie Gordon Lane
  by John Lowe
• Dramatic deception and black identity in The First One and Riding the Goat
  by Taylor Hagood
• Echoes of Africa in To Sleep With Anger and Eve's Bayou
  by Mary Ellison
• The mother-daughter Aje relationship in Toni Morrison's Beloved
  by Teresa N. Washington
• Kimberly Wallace-Sanders, ed. Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture
  by William Gleason
• Biblical trees, biblical deliverance: literary landscapes of Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison
  by Glenda B. Weathers
• Sterling D. Plumpp. Velvet BeBop Kente Cloth
  by Michael A. Antonucci
• "Ironic soil" : recuperative rhythms and negotiated nationalisms
  by Stefanie K. Dunning
• Ronald Radano. Lying Up a Nation: Race and Black Music
  by William Kenney
• Wanda Coleman. Ostinato Vamps
  by Sara Kosiba
• In the swamp
  by William Henry Lewis
• Alan Rice. Radical Narratives of the Black Atlantic
  by Edward Margolies
• Nathalie Dessens. Myths of the Plantation Society: Slavery in the American South and the West Indies
  by KaaVonia Hinton
• "Civil" War wounds: William Wells Brown, violence, and the domestic narrative
  by Jennifer James
• A ghost in the expressionist jungle of O'Neill's The Emperor Jones
  by Carme Manuel