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Abbott, Joseph, 40 Abu-Lughod, Janet L., Before European Hegemony, 14 Adams, Charles, 100 Adelman, Lynn, 85 A Different Drummer, 10, 43, 46, 90, 93–95, 95–117, 226, 254 African American Sociopolitical Mission of Racial Uplift, ix, 1, 2, 36, 73; as liberation theology, 36–37 African American subaltern, 56–57 Afro-American (Baltimore), 40 Afro-American League, 35 Afro-American Literature in the Twentieth Century, 42, 108, 115, 195, 269n Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition, 94, 139, 195, 269n Afzal-Khan, Fawzia, Cultural Imperialism and the Indo-English Novel, 7 Albanese, Denise, 20 Alexander, Charles, 40, 261n Ali, King Sunni, 258n Allen, Theodore W., Invention of the White Race, The, 25–26 Almost Midnight, 10, 44, 90, 226, 228–229, 229–250, 250–251 Altieri, Charles, on canon formation, 41, 42 Amin, Samir, 3 Amini, Johari, 46 Amnistad, 45 Anderson, Jarvis, 59 Anderson, Sherwood, Dark Laughter, 45 Anti-Oedipus, The, 217 Archaeology of Knowledge, The, 8–9 “Aryan model,” 258n Attaway, William, Let Me Breathe Thunder, 45 Attucks, Crispus, 260n Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, The, 42, 65, 91–92, 171, 189, 194, 197, 254, 265n, 266n, 268n, 269n–270n; as a pivotal canonical text, 67–68; critical analysis of, 68–90; critical reception of, 91–92. See also James Weldon Johnson Awkward, Michael, 47 Baker, Houston A. Jr., 43, 44; Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature, 48, 169; Long Black Song, 42, 93, 169, 195, 265n, 269n; Singers of Daybreak, 42, 93, 169, 195, 264n–265n, 269n Baker, Nikki, 44 Baldwin, James 121, 223–24, 264n; Giovanni’s Room, 45, 200; Go Tell It On the Mountain, 200; Just Above My Head, 200; “Sonny’s Blues,” 48, 149 Balliett, Whitney, 138 Bambara, Toni Cade, 44; “Blues Ain’t No Mockin’ Bird,” 149; Salt Eaters, The, 250; “Witchbird,” 149 Baraka, Amiri, 40, 46, 264n. See also LeRoi Jones Barnes, Stephen, 44 Barrera, Mario, 23 Bartlett, Robert, Making of Europe, The, 16, 18 Barrett, William, 138 Bass, Charlotte, 40 Bass, Joseph, 261n Beam, Joseph, In The Life, 58, 201, 224 Beatty, Paul, White Boy Shuffle, The, 49 Before the Mayflower, 50–63, 269n Bell, Bernard, Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition, 94, 139, 195, 269n Bell, Madison Smartt, 229 Belton, Don, Almost Midnight, 10, 44, 90, 226, 254; critical analysis of, 229–250; critical reception of, 228–229, 250–251 Bennett, Lerone, Before the Mayflower, 50–63, 269n Bennett, Tony, 5–6 Bernal, Martin, Black Athena, 258n Bersani, Leo, Homos, 219 Bethune, Mary McLeod, 52 283 Index bhabba, homi k., on identity, 114 Bibb, Henry, Narrative of the Life, 265n Black Aesthetic discourse, 46–47 Black Books Bulletin, 45 Black Cultural Nationalism, 45, 48 Black Gay and Lesbian Leadership Forum, The, 201 Black Lines, 201 black looks, 87 blackness and the adventure of western culture, 42, 195, 262n–264n Black newspapers, X, 261n–262n Black Power movement, 40 Black Muslims, 40 Black River Writers, 45 Black Skin, White Masks, 99, 110, 142, 259n Black Women Novelists and the Nationalist Aesthetic, 47–48 Black World, 45 Bland, Eleanor Taylor, 44 Blauner, Robert, Racial Oppression in America, 24 Blues, The, 53–54; blues as counterhegemonic , 148–149 Blues Detective: A Study of African American Detective Fiction, The, 49 Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature, 48, 169 Blues People, 148 Bogan, Lucille, “B.D. Woman Blues,” 64 Boles, Robert, 44; Curling, 10, 145; People One Knows, The, 10, 145 Bond, Jean Carey, 95 Bone, Robert A., 41, 262n, 269n, 270n; Negro Novel in America, The, 83, 262n Bontemps, Arna, 44; God Sends Sunday, 90, 172, 262n Boyd, Randy, 205 Boyle, Kay, 121 Bradley, David, 115 Brawley, Benjamin, 41, 262n Brent, Linda, 43 Briscoe, Connie, 271n Broadside Press, 45 Brooks, Gwendolyn, 42, 43, 46; Maud Martha, 90 Broonzy, Big Bill, 148 Brother to Brother, 201 “Bourgeois Hysteria and the Carnivalesque,” 183 Brown, Cecil, Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger, The, 49 Brown, H. Rap, 40 Brown, Sterling, 41, 262n, 267n; Southern Road, 172 Brown vs. The Board of Education, 40 Brown, William Wells, 10; Clotel or The President’s Daughter, 46; My Southern Home, 172; Narrative of the Life, 166n Bruce, John Edward, 38; Black Sleuth, The, 49 Burke, Peter, Renaissance Sense of the Past, The, 19–20 Burton, Rainelle, Root Worker, The, 44, 250 Butler, Judith, 217; Gender Trouble, 181, 202 Butler, Octavia, 44, 49 Byam, Milton, 138 Byerman, Keith E., 140 Byrd, James W., 95 Cable, George W., Grandissimes, The, 45 Cain, George, Blueschild Baby, 265n California Eagle...

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