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193 alterity, xxi, 41, 84–96, 144–46 archetypal figures: (bad) nigger, xv, xx, 19–21, 24, 27–28, 98, 104–5, 106, 113–20, 120n5, 174; badman, xv, xxi, 19, 22, 77–82, 84, 85–86, 89, 92–93, 98, 103–5, 106, 113–15, 119–20, 120n5, 127, 130, 132, 174; intellectual , xxi, 98, 100–4, 106; superhuman matriarch, 60–61, 62, 67–68, 68–69n3, 69n4; trickster, xx–xxi, 70, 74–75, 77–82, 83n2, 84, 91–93, 112–13 Arendt, Hannah, 48, 53 Attaway, William, 103. Work: Blood on the Forge, 103 Baldwin, James, ix, 30, 32, 34, 38, 42, 49, 50, 56n8. Work: “The American Dream and the American Negro,” 30 Baraka, Amiri (LeRoi Jones), x–xiii, xv, xvi, 6, 171, 176n10. Works: Blues People, xi; Dutchman, xii–xiii; Home, xii; The Slave, xii, xiii; The System of Dante’s Hell, 171 Bell, Derrick, 49, 50, 53 black Atlantic (Gilroy), xix, 32–33, 35, 40–42, 176n10 blues, xi, xiv, xix, 3–17, 22–23, 107; as expression of longing for home, xi, 3–5, 8–10; as recollection of communal past, 10–13, 22–23 blutopia (Lock), xviii–xix, 3–4 , 6–7, 8–15, 136, 164, 173 Bradbury, Ray, 149. Work: Fahrenheit 451, 149 Butler, Octavia, 135 Butler, Samuel, 146n1 Camus, Albert, 167. Work: The Myth of Sisyphus, 167 Chandler, Raymond, xviii, 94, 98, 109–10, 112, 120n1, 127. Works: The Big Sleep, 98; “The Simple Art of Murder,” 110 Cleage, Pearl, 60. Work: Flyin’ West, 60 Clinton, Bill, 94 cyberpunk, xxii, 148–49, 159n2 Dante Alighieri, 171, 176n10 Delany, Samuel R., 135 Dick, Philip K., Jr., 148, 159n1. Work: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, 148 double consciousness (Du Bois), 20, 21, 25, 30–31, 35–36, 41–42, 102, 114, 124, 128, 171–72 Douglass, Frederick, ix, 26, 30, 33, 36, 39, 102. Work: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, 102 Du Bois, W. E. B., ix, xii, 20, 24, 30–31, 35–36, 41–42, 98, 102, 106, 114, 124. Work: The Souls of Black Folk, ix, 30, 36, 41 dystopia, xv, xxii–xxiii, 133–46, 148–49, 151, 159n3 Index Index 194 Ellington, Duke, 15n2 Ellison, Ralph, ix, xx–xxi, 5, 10–11, 14, 30, 70–83, 101, 103, 107–8. Works: “Brave Words,” 75; “The Charlie Christian Story,” 14; Invisible Man, xx, 17n16, 30, 70–83, 101, 103, 107; Juneteenth, 107; “Richard Wright’s Blues,” 10–11, 103, 108; Shadow and Act, 79 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, xix, 18, 27–28, 29n12 Fisher, Rudolph, 122 Foucault, Michel, 141 Frazier, E. Franklin, xii, 105. Work: The Black Bourgeoisie, 105 Gaines, Ernest, 101. Work: A Lesson Before Dying, 101 Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., xvii, xxii, 121–22 genocide, 45–46, 47, 52, 55, 145, 170 Gibson, William, 148–49, 158, 159n2, 159–60n4. Work: Neuromancer, 148, 149, 159–60n4 Gilroy, Paul, xix, 32–33, 35, 40–42 Goya, Francisco, 39–40, 42, 43n5 Great Migration, xi, xii, 11–12, 97, 99 Haley, Alex, 107. Work: Roots, 107 Hammett, Dashiell, xviii, 98, 107, 109. Work: The Maltese Falcon, 98, 107 Hansberry, Lorraine, 60, 97. Work: A Raisin in the Sun, 60, 97 hard-boiled detective fiction, xviii, xxi–xxii, 86, 87, 93–94, 96n17, 98–99, 107, 109–10, 112, 119–20, 122–32, 133; parody of, xxii, 122–32 Harevan, Tamara, 28 Harris, Cheryl, 50, 53 Harris, Robert, 138. Work: Fatherland, 138 Harris, Trudier, 60–61, 62 heroism, xxi, 79, 84, 90, 98–101, 103–5, 108, 109–15, 117–20, 144, 152–53, 164, 172, 174; in hard-boiled detective fiction, xxii, 98–100, 109–10, 112–13, 119–20 Himes, Chester, xviii, 47, 103, 122. Work: The Primitive, 103 Hobson, Janell, 61, 62 home: African heritage and, xiv, 22, 32, 37–38, 40–41, 46, 50, 54–55, 72, 75, 91, 106–7, 137; community and, x–xi, xvii, 4–7, 10–14, 15, 22–27, 51, 59, 64, 66–68, 71–74, 81–82, 98, 101–2, 105–6, 108, 110–20, 124, 129–31, 136–37, 173; family and, 21, 25, 34–36, 65, 74, 80–82, 116–17, 118, 126–29, 131–32, 164–67, 168, 173; geographical location and, x–xi, xvi–xvii, 6–7, 12–13, 65–66, 101–3, 104, 108, 171–72; houses and, xv, xix, 18–29, 46, 50–51, 63–64, 73–74, 87–88, 95–96n9, 111–12, 173; imprisonment and, 6, 19–21, 27–28, 89...
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