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435 Index Abel, Elizabeth, 378 (n. 21) Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, 147 Abused women, 58, 66, 68–70, 72, 78, 363 Acadians, 192, 196, 206, 207. See also Cajuns Adams, Gleason R. W., Les Cenelles (translation ), 220, 222, 228 Adams, Jessica, Wounds of Returning, 61 Adéle v. Beauregard (La., 1810), 395 (n. 44) Africa, 19, 38, 40, 41, 110; black American heritage and, 382–83 (n. 43); genealogical searches in, 44, 47; as inspiration, 38; slave trade from, 47, 72–73, 196, 382; Walker and, 340, 350–51, 365, 368, 373. See also African diaspora African American literature, 4, 5, 9–10, 15, 16–17, 34–39, 51; bridging and, 50, 62, 140, 150, 161, 163–64; Creole language and, 248; Creoles of Color and, 216–20; dream space and, 120; Federal Writers’ Project and, 137, 139, 141, 143–46, 149, 151; gay identity and, 324–28; historical fiction genre and, 36–40, 48, 50–52, 268, 269; local color and, 226–28; narrative performance and, 239–40; 1930s and, 135–43; 1980s and, 32, 36–43, 50, 52, 77– 82, 340; portrayals of Till’s lynching and, 91–92, 96, 102, 386 (n. 16); postmodernism and, 16, 18, 19–20, 38, 40, 43, 59, 68, 120, 313, 316, 328–29, 339; recurring key spaces of, 15; return to southern home and, 36–38, 45, 56, 57, 167; southern folk culture and, 344; twenty-first century and, 9, 12, 32, 95, 119–21, 166–67; visibility of, 32, 347; women’s writing and, 31, 339–40, 344, 345, 364, 381 (n. 21). See also names of specific writers African Americans: divergent populations of, 40; family reunions of, 46–47, 48, 50; genealogical searches by, 44; as the Other, 27; post–civil rights era changed status of, 9–10, 12, 28, 31–32, 40, 41; regional identity and, 9–10, 19; return to New South of, 8, 18, 19, 34–35, 53–57; southern cultural home of, 43, 55, 328, 344–46, 363. See also Black headings; Race; specific issues African diaspora, 44, 45, 82, 193, 194; culture of, 82; Louisiana and, 200–201, 203–4, 206, 252–54; Walker’s concerns with, 340, 351, 365, 373 Afro-Creole population. See Creoles of Color Afro-French population, 190. See also Creoles of Color Alabama, 5, 54, 81, 95; Birmingham church bombing, 172–73, 185 Album Littéraire, L’, 216–17 Alexander, Elizabeth, 90, 120, 310 Alexander, Margaret Walker. See Walker, Margaret Algren, Nelson, 137 Alienation, 14–15 Allen, James, Without Sanctuary, 86 Allen, Paula Gunn, 351–52 Allison, Dorothy, 364; Bastard out of Carolina, 339 Alsberg, Henry, 144, 145 Althusser, Louis, 150 American Hunger (Wright), 140, 149, 151–52, 153, 156–57, 158–59, 160–62, 163, 165 American Stuff, 139, 140, 145 Anastasie Desarzant v. Pierre Lablanc and Eglantine Desmazillier (1858), 191, 237, 400 (n. 150) Anderson, Benedict, 194; Imagined Communities , 15, 194 Anderson, Sherwood, Winesburg, Ohio, 126 Andrews, William, Sisters of the Spirit, 42–43 Angelou, Maya, 337 Angola State Penitentiary (La.), 292–93, 304 Angolite, The, 293 Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 378 (n. 19) Ansa, Tina McElroy, 167, 181, 364 “Antillanité” identity, 192–93 |436| INDEX Antoine, Caesar Carpentier, 399 (n. 126) Antoine, Père, 204 Anvil, 143 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 232 Apartheid, 252. See also Segregation Apertural space, 57–76 Architectonic space, 238–39 Arlington National Cemetery, 71 Articulation, 150–51 Asian Americans, 56. See also South Asians Aswell, Edward, 164, 383 (n. 63) Atlanta, Ga., 8, 98, 344; black return migrants to, 8, 53, 54–55 Atlantic Monthly, 141 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, The (Gaines), 39, 264, 267, 275–76, 285, 288, 304–10, 316; ideals expressed in, 307–8 Awiakta Bonham, Marilou, 19; “An Indian Walks in Me,” 110–11; “Motheroot,” 111 B. (Valcour). See Valcour Bachelard, Gaston, 329, 332, 358; The Poetics of Space, 358, 359 Baker, Ella, 83 Baker, Houston A., Jr., 18, 59, 97, 159–60, 186, 216; “Critical Memory and the Black Public Sphere,” 176; I Don’t Hate the South, 339; “To Move without Moving ,” 406 (n. 107); Turning South Again, 392–93 (n. 7). Baldwin, James, 20, 166, 167, 168, 170, 172, 176, 177, 178, 179–80, 386 (n. 16); Another Country, 406 (n. 107); Giovanni’s Room, 406 (n. 107); Go Tell It on the Mountain, 326 Ball, Edward, Slaves in the Family, 47 Bamboula, 212 Bambara, Toni Cade, 344 Baraka, Amiri (LeRoi Jones), 164 Barrax, Gerald, 167 Barthelemy, Anthony, “Light...

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