African American Review

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Articles in Summer, 1998 issue of African American Review

• Call-and-response: parallel "slave narrative" in August Wilson's 'The Piano Lesson.'
  by Devon Boan
• The City in African-American Literature
  by Charles Scruggs
• The Cattle Killing
  by Philip Page
• "The laws were laid down to me anew": Harriet Jacobs and the reframing of legal fictions
  by Christina Accomando
• Negritude and Literary Criticism: The History and Theory of "Negro-African" Literature in French
  by A. James Arnold
• Revolution of Conscience: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Philosophy of Nonviolence
  by Hans A. Baer
• "Love me like I like to be": the sexual politics of Hurston's 'Their Eyes Were Watching God,' the classic blues and the Black Women's Club movement
  by Carol Batker
• Criticism and the Color Line: Desegregating American Literary Studies
  by Georgina Dodge
• Conversations with Chester Himes
  by Bernard W. Bell
• Beneath the Black aesthetic: James Baldwin's primer of Black American masculinity
  by Andrew Shin
• Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England
  by Dorothy Stephens
• Selected Works of Edythe Mae Gordon
  by Lovalerie King
• "In the land of cotton": economics and violence in Jean Toomer's 'Cane.'
  by Barbara Foley
• Retelling our selves: collective memory and the body in Charlotte Watson Sherman's 'One Dark Body.'
  by Nicholas Sloboda
• Conversations with Ernest Gaines
  by Valerie Babb
• History, myth, and revolt in Lorraine Hansberry's 'Les Blancs.'
  by Philip Uko Effiong
• Catching Sense: African American Communities on a South Carolina Sea Island
  by John Stewart
• Paule Marshall's 'Brown Girl, Brownstones': reconciling ethnicity and individualism
  by Martin Japtok
• Platform for Change: THe Foundations of the Northern Free Black Community, 1775-1865
  by Shane White
• Tip-toeing on the tightrope: a personal essay on Black writer ambivalence
  by Stan West
• A Fire in the Bones: Reflections on African-American Religious History
  by Dolan Hubbard
• The double truth, Ruth: 'Do the Right Thing' and the culture of ambiguity
  by James C. McKelly
• The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language and Twentieth-Century Literature
  by Susan M. Marren
• William Grant Still: A Bio-Bibliography
  by B.A. Nugent
• The fourth face: the image of God in Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye.'
  by Allen Alexander
• Katie's Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community
  by La Vinia D. Jennings