African American Literature in Transition, 1990-2000: Volume 16

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

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The book contains eleven chapters of original research whose objects of study span the fields of literary and cultural production, from novels, poetry, and plays to music, television, and film. This multimedia context is essential for understanding the development of African American literature in the 1990s, and each chapter provides an ample bibliography of primary and secondary sources for interdisciplinary study of the decade. The book's conceptual coherence is enhanced by dividing the eleven chapters into three thematic clusters: 'Culture, Commerce, and Criticism,' 'Gender, Genre, and Generations,' and 'Poetry, Performance, and Parody.' These clusters draw connections not only between their constituent chapters but also across media and bibliographies, bringing literary, historical, discursive, and cultural analysis to bear on the Black 1990s. The book's rationale and structure are clearly described in the introduction, which doubles as an outline of each chapter's argument and place within the volume.

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Utgivningsdatum:2027-01-31
Vikt:500 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:African American Literature in Transition
Antal sidor:350
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009763561

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Kinohi Nishikawa is the author of the book Street Players: Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of a Literary Underground (2018), the co-editor of special issues of American Literature ('How Literature Understands Poverty,' 2022) and Post45 Peer Reviewed ('How to Be Now,' 2019), and the author of articles, essays, and book chapters on African American print culture and publishing history.

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Introduction Kinohi Nishikawa; Part I. Culture, Commerce, and Criticism: 1. The New Jack renaissance: Black literary and cultural production and the institutionalization of African American literary studies Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus; 2. How Oprah Gail Winfrey makes love for books Dennis Tyler; 3. Black athletic demonstrative power in the National Basketball Association Phillip Lamarr Cunningham; Part II. Gender, Genre, and Generations: 4. Collapsing ecologies: environmental justice in Black speculative fiction Alyssa D. Collins; 5. Southern twists, turns, and returns in African American literature and culture of the 1990s Riché Richardson; 6. Building a Black women's film culture in the 1990s Hayley O'Malley; 7. The fear of a street lit planet Jacinta R. Saffold; Part III. Poetry, Performance, and Parody: 8. Thickening the plot: Rita Dove's influence through the 1990s Ryan Sharp; 9. What is a Black play? The aesthetics of empowerment Stefka Mihaylova; 10. 'When African Americans Laugh, There's a Rumble' post-soul African American humor at the end of the twentieth century Terrence Tucker; 11. In the wake of Brad Lomax: Paul Beatty, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the promise of satire Therí A. Pickens.