目次

VOLUME I
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF REPRINTED ARTICLE AND CHAPTERS
SELECTIVE HISTORICAL CHRONOLOGY
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITING

INTRODUCTION
A. ROBERT LEE

PART I: African American Literary-Cultural Statements
1 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? An Address Delivered in Rochester, New York, on 5 July 1852 / FREDERICK DOUGLASS
2 The New Negro / ALAIN LOCKE
3 The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain / LANGSTON HUGHES
4 Criteria For Negro Art / W.E.B. DUBOIS
5 Post-bellum ? Pre-Harlem / CHARLES W. CHESNUTT
6 How It Feels To Be Colored Me / ZORA NEALE HURSTON
7 The World and the Jug / RALPH ELLISON
8 Many Thousands Gone / JAMES BALDWIN
9 Integration and Race Literature / ARTHUR P. DAVIS
10 The Myth of a “Negro Literature”/ LEROI JONES
11 Dilemma of the Negro Novelist in the United States / CHESTER HIMES
12 Introduction: The Reed Reader / ISHMAEL REED
13 If the Present Looks Like the Past, What Does the Future Look Like? / ALICE WALKER
14“What’s in a Name?” Some Meanings of Blackness / HENRY LOUIS GATES, Jr

PART 2: Overviews
15 Harlem on My Mind: Fictions of a Black Metropolis / A. ROBERT LEE
16 In Our Own Time: The Florescence of Nationalism in the Sixties and Seventies / HOUSTON A. BAKER, Jr.
17 Trajectories of Self-definition: Placing Contemporary Afro-American Women’s Fiction / BARBARA CHRISTIAN

PART 3: Theory Perspectives
18 The Black Aesthetic: Introduction / ADDISON GAYLE JR
19 The Black Arts Movement / LARRY NEAL
20 The Blackness of Blackness: a Critique of the Sign and the Signifying Monkey / HENRY LOUIS GATES JR.
21 The Idea of Ancestry: African-American Writers / KARLA F.C. HOLLOWAY

VOLUME II
PART 4: Oral Tradition and Legacy
22 Through the Prism of Folklore: The Black Ethos in Slavery / STERLING STUCKEY
23 Black Folklore and the Black American Literary Tradition / Houston A. BAKER, Jr.

PART 5: Literary critique and slavery studies
24 Africa, Slavery, & The Roots of Contemporary Black Culture / MARY F. BERRY and JOHN W. BLASSINGAME
25 I Rose and Found My Voice: Narration, Authentication, and Authorial Control in Four Slave Narratives / ROBERT B. STEPTO
26 Form and Ideology in Three Slave Narratives / VALERIE SMITH
27 Out of Slavery / SANDI RUSSELL

PART 6: Early and Reconstruction African American Texts
28 Phillis Wheatley’s Construction of Otherness and the Rhetoric of Performed Ideology / MARY McALEER BALKUN
29 Dwelling in the House of Oppression: The Spatial, Racial, and Textual Dynamics of Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig / LOIS LEVEEN
30 The Specter of Conspiracy in Martin Delaney’s Blake / REBECCA SKIDMORE BIGGIO
31 Trunk and Branch: Charles Waddell Chesnutt, 1858-1932 / LADELL PAYNE
32 A Necessary Ambivalence: Sutton Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio and Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition / JANE CAMPBELL
33 Paul Laurence Dunbar: A Credit to His Race? / LILLIAN S. ROBINSON AND GREG ROBINSON
34 Pauline Hopkins: Our Literary Foremother / CLAUDIA TATE
35 The Souls of Black Folk: Reading Across the Color Line / SANDRA ADELL

VOLUME III
PART 7: New Negro and Harlem Renaissance
36 Revising Critical Judgments of The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man / HEATHER RUSSELL ANDRADE
37 Langston Hughes’s Poems and the Metaphysics of Simplicity / KARL HENZY
38 The Negro Renaissance: Jean Toomer and the Harlem Writers of the 1920s / ARNA BONTEMPS
39 The Aggregate Man in Jean Toomer’s Cane / WILLIAM C. FISCHER
40 Countee Cullen: the Lost Ariel / DARWIN T. TURNER
41 Writing from the Margins of the Margins: Michael Gold’s Jews Without Money and Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem / CATHERINE ROTTENBERG
42 How It Feels to Be Colored Me”: Social Protest in the Fiction of Zora Neale Hurston / SHARON L. JONES
43 Passing in the Fiction of Jessie Redmon Fauset abd Nella Larsen / MARY CONDE
44 Sweetback Style: Wallace Thurman and a Queer Harlem Renaissance / STEPHEN P. KNADLER

PART 8: Richard Wright, Chester Himes, Ann Petry, Frank Yerby, Margaret Walker and John A. Williams
45 Richard Wright’s Inside Narratives / A. ROBERT LEE
46 Assuming the Position: Fugivity and Futurity in the Work of Chester Himes / KEVIN BELL
47 Buried Alive: Gothic Homelessness, Black Women’s Sexuality, and (Living) Death in Ann Petry’s The Street / EVIE SHOCKLEY
48 Frank Yerby and the “Costume Drama” of Southern Historiography / STEPHANIE BROWN
49 Margaret Walker’s Jubilee: The Black Woman’s Celebration of Human Community / MINROSE C. GWIN
50 Black Power beyond Black Nationalism: John A. Williams, Cultural Pluralism, and the Popular Front / MATTHEW CALIHMAN

PART 9: Ellison and Baldwin
51 Frequencies of Eloquence: the Performance and Composition of Invisible Man / JOHN F. CALLAHAN
52 Ralph Ellison, Juneteenth, and African American prophecy / CHRISTOPHER Z. HOBSON
53 Finding The Words: Baldwin, Race Consciousness, and Democratic Theory / LAWRIE BALFOUR
54 Refiguring the Flesh: The Word, the Body, and the Rituals of Being in Beloved and Go Tell It On The Mountain / CAROL E. HENDERSON

VOLUME IV
PART 10: Modern African American Fiction
55 The Morrison Trilogy / JUSTINE TALLY
56 The Color Purple / MARIA LAURET
57 Women’s Blues: The Fiction of Toni Cade Bambara and Alice Walker / KEITH E. BYERMAN
58 Beyond Morrison and Walker: Looking Good and Looking Forward in Contemporary Black Women’s Stories / E. SHELLEY REID
59 American Neo-Hoodooism: the Novels of Ishmael Reed / PIERRE-DAMIAN MVUEKURE
60 Paule Marshall’s Witness to History / MISSY DEHN KUBITSSCHEK
61 The Quarters: Ernest Gaines and the Sense of Place / CHARLES H. ROWELL
62 Gloria Naylor’s Extending the Line: From Sula to Mama Day / CHERYL A. WALL
63“As Within, So it is Without”: The Composite Self in Charles Johnson’s Oxherding Tale and Middle Passage / PHILIP PAGE
64 The Iron Fettered Weight of all Civilization: The Project of Barbara Chase-Riboud’s Narratives of Slavery / ASHRAF H. A. RUSHDY
65 Inverting History in Octavia Butler’s Postmodern Slave Narrative / MARC STEINBERG
66 Trey Ellis / DANIEL GRASSIAN
67“When the Women Tell Stories”: Healing in Edwidge Dantikat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory / DANA A. WILLIAMS
68 The Politics of Style in Three Stories by James Alan McPherson / JON WALLACE

VOLUME V
PART 11: Modern African American Poetry
69 Gwendolyn Brooks’ Poetic Realism: A Developmental Survey / GEORGE KENT
70 Melvin B. Tolson and the Deterritorialization of Modernism / ALDON L. NIELSEN
71 (a) Robert Hayden: The Man in the Middle / W.D. SNODGRASS
(b) Every Shut-Eye Aint Asleep/Every Good-bye Aint Gone, Robert Hayden (1913-1990) / MICHAEL HARPER
72 After Modernism, After Hibernation: Michael Harper, Robert Hayden, and JayWright / ROBERT B. STEPTO
73“These Are The Songs If You Have the Music”: An Essay on Imamu Baraka / HOUSTON A. BAKER, Jr.
74 Sonia Sanchez: The Will and the Spirit / D.H. MELHEM
75 Blue Syntaxopones: The Poetry of Bob Kaufman / ROBERT ELLIOT FOX
76 Living on the Line: Audre Lorde and Our Dead Behind Us / GLORIA T. HULL
77 Rita Dove and The Art of History / PAT RIGHELATO
78 Trickster Poetics: Multiculturalism and Collectivity in Nathaniel Mackey’s Song of Andoumboulou / MEGAN SIMPSON

PART 12: African American Drama
79 Lorraine Hansberry / MARGARET B. WILKERSON
80 The Role of Memory in August Wilson’s Four-Hundred-Year Autobiography / SANDRA G. SHANNON
81 African American Representations in Thugh Plays of Suzan-Lori Parks / KEVIN WETMORE

PART 13: African American Autobiography
82 The Stance of Self-Representation: Founders, Moderns and Contemporaries in African American Autobiography / A. ROBERT LEE
83 Maya Angelou: The Creation of a Positive Black Self / EVA LENNOX BIRCH