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  1. True Terror: The Haunting of Spike Lee's 25th Hour
  2. Derik Smith
  3. pp. 1-16
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0004
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  1. When the Levees Broke: Inconvenient Truths and the Limits of National Identity
  2. Anna Hartnell
  3. pp. 17-31
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0010
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  1. The Theater of Hustle and the Hustle of Theater: Play, Player, and Played in Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog
  2. Michael LeMahieu
  3. pp. 33-47
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0016
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  1. Black Women's Labor and the Melodrama of Class Mobility in Sutton Griggs's Overshadowed
  2. Andreá N. Williams
  3. pp. 49-64
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0022
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  1. "People Will Pay to Hear the Drama": Plagiarism in Clotel
  2. Geoffrey Sanborn
  3. pp. 65-82
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0027
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  1. William Wells Brown's Economy of Entertainment
  2. Bryan Sinche
  3. pp. 83-98
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0032
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  1. Sula's Joke on Psychoanalysis
  2. Jennifer E. Henton
  3. pp. 99-113
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0002
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  1. Approaching the Thing of Slavery: A Lacanian Analysis of Toni Morrison's Beloved
  2. Sheldon George
  3. pp. 115-130
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0008
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  1. The Cartography of Memory: An Ecocritical Reading of Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
  2. Anissa Janine Wardi
  3. pp. 131-142
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0014
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  1. Adapting The Bluest Eye for the Stage
  2. Harvey Young, Jocelyn Prince
  3. pp. 143-155
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0020
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  1. Even Better than the Real Thing: Boris Vian, Vernon Sullivan, and Film Noir
  2. Douglas Field
  3. pp. 157-166
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0025
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  1. Confronting The Stone Face: The Critical Cosmopolitanism of William Gardner Smith
  2. Alexa Weik von Mossner
  3. pp. 167-182
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0030
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  1. "To Ask Again": Folklore, Mumbo Jumbo, and the Question of Ethnographic Metafictions
  2. Shelley Ingram
  3. pp. 183-196
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0000
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  1. Performing the Past to Claim the Future: Sun Ra and the Afro-Future Underground, 1954-1968
  2. Daniel Kreiss
  3. pp. 197-203
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0006
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  1. A Lie of Omission: Plagiarism in Nella Larsen's Quicksand
  2. Erika Renée Williams
  3. pp. 205-216
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0012
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  1. Travels with Paul
  2. William Schatzkamer, Laura Schatzkamer
  3. pp. 217-223
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0018
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  1. The Races of America
  2. Edward Bruce Bynum
  3. pp. 225-227
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0023
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  1. Douglass in London 1861, and: Interrogating Wordsworth, and: Douglass in Cedar Hill
  2. Reginald Flood
  3. pp. 228-229
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0028
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  1. Serengeti, and: Uhuru Peak
  2. Tomás Gayton
  3. p. 230
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0033
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  1. Landing Soft, and: Feeling Us
  2. Vonsha Henderson
  3. p. 231
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0003
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  1. Black Chaco Canyon Revery
  2. Harry A. Reed
  3. pp. 232-233
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0009
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  1. Why Girls Walk Home, and: Affirmative Action
  2. Michael Meyerhofer
  3. pp. 234-235
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0015
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  1. Breckinridge Mill Dam: Virginian Summer
  2. R. Flowers Rivera
  3. p. 236
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0021
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  1. Wading in Shallow Water
  2. Amanda D. Thomas
  3. p. 237
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0026
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  1. Family Reunion, 1993, and: To the Green Polka Dot Muumuu My Mother Loved to See Her Mother Wear
  2. L. Lamar Wilson
  3. p. 238
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0031
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  1. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable (review)
  2. Houston A. Baker Jr.
  3. pp. 239-244
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0001
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  1. Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage by Vincent Carretta (review)
  2. John C. Shields
  3. pp. 245-249
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0007
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  1. New Essays on Phillis Wheatley ed. by John C. Shields and Eric D. Lamore (review)
  2. Will Harris
  3. pp. 250-251
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0035
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  1. Brother Mine: The Correspondence of Jean Toomer and Waldo Frank ed. by Kathleen Pfeiffer, and: Cane: A Norton Critical Edition by Jean Toomer (review)
  2. Michael Yellin
  3. pp. 251-255
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0036
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  1. Heat Wave: The Life and Career of Ethel Waters by Donald Bogle (review)
  2. Glenda E. Gill
  3. pp. 255-256
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0013
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  1. The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960 by Lawrence P. Jackson (review)
  2. Michael Lackey
  3. pp. 256-258
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0019
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  1. The African American Roots of Modernism: From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance by James Smethurst (review)
  2. John Lowney
  3. pp. 258-261
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0024
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  1. Jim Crow's Counterculture: The Blues and Black Southerners, 1890-1945 by R. A. Lawson (review)
  2. Robert Hawkins
  3. pp. 261-263
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0029
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  1. Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body by Harvey Young (review)
  2. Koritha Mitchell
  3. pp. 263-265
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0034
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  1. The Fiction of Gloria Naylor: Houses and Spaces of Resistance by Maxine Lavon Montgomery (review)
  2. Shirley A. Stave
  3. pp. 265-267
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0005
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  1. Spectacular Blackness: The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic by Amy Abugo Ongiri (review)
  2. Lisa Gail Collins
  3. pp. 267-270
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0011
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  1. Contributors
  3. pp. 271-273
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0017
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