In this Issue

Table of Contents

"I Could Always Feel Race Trouble . . . Never More Than Two Feet Off": Chester Himes's Melancholic Perception

Tyrone Simpson II
pp. 233-245
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0050
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Chester Himes, Boris Vian, and the Transatlantic Politics of Racial Representation

Grégory Pierrot
pp. 247-262
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0007
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On Chester Himes and Success

Lisa Fluet
pp. 263-276
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0015
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Everybody's Noir Humanism: Chester Himes, Lonely Crusade, and The Quality of Hurt

Justus Nieland
pp. 277-293
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0023
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"Singing Love Songs to Mr. Death": Racial Terror and the State of Erection in D'Angelo's "(Untitled) How Does It Feel?"

Aimé J. Ellis
pp. 295-309
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0031
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"The Kiss of Memory": The Problem of Love in Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

Tracy L. Bealer
pp. 311-327
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0039
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The Trouble with Publicness: Toward a Theory of Black Quiet

Kevin Everod Quashie
pp. 329-343
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0047
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Up Close and Personal: Edwidge Danticat on Haitian Identity and the Writer's Life

Opal Palmer Adisa
pp. 345-355
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0004
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Forgotten Manuscripts: "To My Friend—Joseph S. Cotter," by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Herbert Woodward Martin
pp. 357-358
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0012
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"We are not in the old days now": Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Problem of Sympathy

Christine A. Wooley
pp. 359-370
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0020
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Writing to "Virtuous" and "Gentle" Readers: The Problem of Pain in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents and Harriet Wilson's Sketches

Sally Gomaa
pp. 371-381
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0028
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An Interview with Marilyn Nelson

David Anderson
pp. 383-395
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0036
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Millie-Christine

Marilyn Nelson
pp. 397-400
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0044
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Charles Johnson's Way to a Spiritual Literature

Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
pp. 401-412
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0001
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Historical Fiction and Maryse Condé's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

Zubeda Jalalzai
pp. 413-425
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0009
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Visions of Their America: Waldo Frank's Jewish-Modernist Influence on Jean Toomer's "Fern"

Michael Yellin
pp. 427-442
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0017
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The Historical Uncanny: Segregation Signs in Getting Mother's Body, a Post-Civil Rights American Novel

Brian Norman
pp. 443-456
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0025
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The Death and Life of a Chicago Edifice: Gwendolyn Brooks's "In the Mecca"

Daniela Kukrechtová
pp. 457-472
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0033
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The Property of Blackness: The Legal Fiction of Frank J. Webb's The Garies and Their Friends

Elizabeth Stockton
pp. 473-486
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0041
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Rise and Fall

Bro. Yao
p. 487
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0049
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Sonnet Ending with a Line by Miles

Stephen Cramer
p. 489
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0006
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There was a ripping sound

Quincy Scott Jones
p. 491
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0014
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Signs and Deliverance

Edward Kelsey Moore
pp. 493-498
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0022
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Evening Guitar, Romare Bearden (1987), and: Zinnias

Georgia Banks-Martin
p. 499
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0030
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Aubade, and: The Beast of Burdens

Robert Nazarene
pp. 501-502
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0038
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The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade (review)

Andrew Opitz
pp. 503-504
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0046
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Revisiting Slave Narratives II/Les avatars contemporains des récits d'esclaves II (review)

Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
pp. 504-506
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0003
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The Portable Charles W. Chesnutt, and: Charles W. Chesnutt: Stories, Novels, & Essays (review)

John M. Freiermuth
pp. 506-508
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0011
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Love and Marriage in Early African America (review)

Cedric Gael Bryant
pp. 508-509
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0019
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Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave (review)

Kari J. Winter
pp. 509-511
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0027
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Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640-1940 (review)

Marisa Huerta
pp. 512-513
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0035
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Jennie Carter: A Black Journalist of the Early West (review)

Jessica Faye Hinton
pp. 513-514
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0043
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Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance (review)

Edward Dauterich
pp. 515-516
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0051
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Unfinished Masterpiece: The Harlem Renaissance Fiction of Anita Scott Coleman (review)

Carol E. Henderson
pp. 516-517
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0008
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Montage of Dream: The Art and Life of Langston Hughes (review)

Mary Hricko
pp. 517-519
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0016
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A Father's Law (review)

Jerry W. Ward Jr.
pp. 519-521
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0024
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Richard Wright's Native Son (review)

E. Lâle Demirtürk
pp. 521-523
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0032
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Dear Chester, Dear John: Letters between Chester Himes and John A. Williams (review)

Matthew Calihman
pp. 523-524
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0040
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Commerce in Color: Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933 (review)

Shin Yamamoto
pp. 524-525
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0048
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Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin (review)

Douglas Field
pp. 525-527
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0005
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In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era (review)

Robert Butler
pp. 527-528
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0013
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Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy (review)

Katy Ryan
pp. 528-530
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0021
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Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of American Politics (review)

Kenneth J. Bindas
pp. 530-532
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0029
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"Closer to the Truth Than Any Fact": Memoir, Memory, and Jim Crow (review)

Amina Gautier
pp. 532-533
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0037
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Bass Cathedral (review)

Aldon Lynn Nielsen
pp. 533-535
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0045
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Can't I Love What I Criticize?: The Masculine and Morrison (review)

Lucille P. Fultz
pp. 535-537
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0002
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Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America (review)

Susan L. Blake
pp. 537-539
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0010
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Authentic New Orleans: Tourism, Culture, and Race in the Big Easy (review)

John Gruesser
pp. 539-540
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0018
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Saviors or Sellouts: The Promise and Peril of Black Conservatism from Booker T. Washington to Condoleezza Rice (review)

Wilma King
pp. 541-542
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0026
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Introduction: A special section on Chester Himes

Jonathan P. Eburne, Kevin Bell
pp. 225-231
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0042
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Contributors

pp. 543-545
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0034
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