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Achebe, Chinua, 187n33 African American cultural nationalism: 1960s contours of, 8; African diaspora literature, 4, 11; archiving as practice of, 132–39; bicentennial and, 144, 199n3; color-blind politics and, 181–82; common ties, 12–13; Communist Party and, 185n18; cookbooks and, 82–85; diaspora and, 11–12, 90, 96, 98–99, 101–2, 104; explorations of alternative homelands, 120, 185n18; folktales, 5, 6; geography, space and, 10–11, 23, 53–55, 67, 108, 110, 112–18, 149–54, 171–72, 175–76; homophobia and, 14; inner nation and, 44, 45, 60, 134–35; literary anthologies and, 4, 10, 16–24, 186– 87n33; literary genres and, 5; mapping and, 112–13; masculinist ideology of, 5, 14–16, 34–36, 39–41, 71–76; Naylor’s definition of, 112; portability of, 111, 114, 121–22, 123–31; possibilities and dangers of, 13, 182; in post-civil rights years, 180–81; segregated communities and, 148, 149–54, 171–72, 200–201n16; self-governance concept and, 12; as set of practices or rituals, 31, 43–44, 55–56, 67, 84–85, 90, 98–105, 107–8, 112, 118–19, 137–38, 170, 173, 174; South as homeland concept, 53–54, 76–82, 90–96, 113–31, 128–30, 192n12, 194n12; theory vs. practice, 174; twenty-first century visions of, 178–79, 181–82; women’s revisions to, 1, 5–7, 14–24, 176–77; women’s work as key to, 173, 180–82 African American Exceptionalism, concept of, 175, 176, 182 African American literature: increasing acceptance of, 177–78; literacy narratives in, 143–44; male writers’ influences on women’s works, 179; marginality of same-sex relationships in, 14; masculinist ideology in, 5, 14–16; memoir genre in, 203–4n1; novels as theory, 29–32, 174; oral/ written binary in, 8–9, 174, 184n11, 193n2, 197n8; polyvocality in, 5, 9, 15, 17, 23, 161, 183–84n7; readers’ work, 179–80; shift in narrative subjects, 14–16; single-name titles in 1970s, 14, 185n21; textual healing process, 37–38, 41; women’s revisions to narrative, 174–76, 187–88n38 African American women: collectives and, 2–3, 22, 134–35, 137–38, 194n8; feminism and, 1–2, 9–10, 17–18, 20, 173; inscribing of stories about, 141–44; matriarchal structure and, 18; necessity of women-centered ritual and community for, 118–19; work of, 2, 180–82 Als, Hilton: New Yorker profile of Morrison, 199n5 Index 220 / INDEX Baraka), 186–87n33; “Leroy,” 195n21; name change of, 191n7; poetry by, 19; “Wailers,” 187n33 Beale, Frances, 18 Bearden, Romare, 202n37 Bellinelli, Matteo, 112, 176 Bhabha, Homi: Nation and Narration, 84 Bildungsroman narrative type, 5, 15 Billops, Camille, 177–78; “Toni Morrison” (with Hatch), 144, 151 black arts movement (BAM): Africanized names and, 191n7; cultural nationalism and, 1; feminist critique of, 9–10, 17, 173; legacy of, 16, 187n34; preference for poetry and drama, 5; Shange’s culinary critique of, 71–76; women poets in, 184n16 Black Book, The (anthology edited by Morrison), 4 black liberation movements: community organizing and, 22; Garvey and, 2, 100; sexism and, 18, 34–35, 39–41, 44, 47, 71–76, 134–35, 151, 183n1, 186n28, 186n30, 187n34, 188n2 Black Panther Party (BPP), 2, 82 Black Woman, The (anthology edited by Bambara), 4, 5, 16–24; Bambara’s efforts after, 33; Bambara’s preface, 18–19, 32; contents of, 16–17; critiques of Moynihan congressional report in, 17–18; discussion transcripts in, 20; dissent and complexity in, 22; editing of, 19–20; Finkelstein and, 186n31; goal of, 19; importance of, 176; possibilities in, 145, 178, 180, 182; variety in, 19, 20–21, 23, 83, 93, 136, 169 Blount, Marcellus, 184n11 blues, form and function of, 46–47, 192n13 Bonetti, Kay: “An Interview with Gloria Naylor,” 121, 122; “Paule Marshall Marshall,” 97; “Toni Cade Bambara,” 35, 36, 41, 43, 46 Bradley, David, 179; The Chaneysville Incident, 133–34, 135 Brinkley, Jamel, 189n15 Bröck, Sabine, 100 Brodber, Erna: Louisiana, 189n11 Brooks, Gwendolyn, 70, 192n12; Brown Girl, 195n19; Maud Martha, 195n19, 196n4; poetry by, 17 Brown, H. Rap, 80–81 American Exceptionalism, concept of, 7, 153, 200–201n16 Anderson, Benedict: Imagined Communities, 6, 95–96 Andrews, Larry R., 137 archiving as women’s work, 26; Naylor’s portrayal of, 132, 136–37, 171; official archives as men’s territory, 134; places as archives, 77–78; as practice of cultural nationalism, 132; types of, 27–28, 132, 170 Armstrong, Louis, 192n13 Association of Artists for Freedom, 4, 183n4 Awkward, Michael, 10 Baker, Ella, 3, 188n2...