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The African American Novel in the Early Twenty-First Century comprises fourteen essays, each focussing on recent, widely known fiction by acclaimed African American authors. This volume showcases the originality, diversity, and vitality of contemporary African American literature, which has reached a bewildering yet exhilarating stage of disruption and continuity between today and yesterday, homegrown and diasporic identities, and local and global interrelatedness. Additionally, it delves into the complexity of the Black literary imagination and its interaction with broader cultural contexts. Lastly, it reflects on the evolution of the African American community, its tribulations, triumphs, challenges, and prospects.

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Author:   Anna Pochmara ,  Raphaël Lambert
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   12
Weight:   0.650kg
ISBN:  

9789004710726

ISBN 10:   9004710728
Pages:   310
Publication Date:   19 December 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1 At the Crossroads of Continuity and Disruption: Exploring the Contemporary African American Novel  Raphaël Lambert and Anna Pochmara 2 Creative Practices of Resistance in Contemporary Narratives of Slavery of the Twenty-First Century  Luana de Souza Sutter 3 Agency and Property in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad  Raphaël Lambert 4 Remembering Generations in Homegoing: Rewriting Roots for the Twenty-First Century  Miguel Sanz Jiménez 5 Ifemelu’s Online Linguistic and Identity Performances in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah  Dorottya Mozes 6 The New African Diaspora and Afropolitanism in the Work of Taiye Selasi  Elisa Bordin 7 Exposure in Teju Cole’s Photography and Fiction  Nicholas Gamso 8 “How Does it Feel to Be Free of One’s Illusions?”: Erasure and the Anti-Essentialist Ethos of Percival Everett  Kamil Chrzczonowicz 9 From Freedom to Struggle: Colson Whitehead’s Apex Hides the Hurt as a Denouncement of Surface Fetishism  Mirosław Aleksander Miernik 10 Voluntary Slavery and Omnipresent Black Fathers: The Thirdspace of Blackness in Paul Beatty’s The Sellout  Anna Pochmara 11 Modes of Change in the Africanfuturism of Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death  Brian Willems 12 Afrofuturist Alternate History in the Post-Race Era: Justina Ireland’s Dread Nation  Julia Lindsay 13 Same As It Ever Was: Dehumanizing the American Cityscape in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One  Jamie Brummer 14 “This Is a Place for the Dead”: Reading the Child Ghost in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing  Lucy Arnold 15 “Hey, Celestial”: Loving Girls and Aging in Toni Morrison’s Love  Mar Gallego Index

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Anna Pochmara is Associate Professor at the University of Warsaw. She authored The Making of the New Negro (UAP, 2011) and The Nadir and the Zenith: Temperance and Excess in the Early African American Novel (UGAP, 2021). Raphaël Lambert is a Professor of African American studies at Kansai University in Osaka, Japan. He is the author of Narrating the Slave Trade, Theorizing Community (Brill, 2019) and Black Hopes/Black Woes: Early African American Optimism and Twenty-first Century Afro-pessimism (Routledge, forthcoming).

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