In this Issue

Table of Contents

Staging the Garveyite Home: Black Masculinity, Failure, and Redemption in Theodore Ward's Big White Fog

Kate Dossett
pp. 557-576
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0070
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Moses, Man of Oppression: A Twentieth-Century African American Critique of Western Theocracy

Michael Lackey
pp. 577-588
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0085
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Trumpets, Horns, and Typewriters: A Call and Response between Ralph Ellison and Frederick Douglass

David Messmer
pp. 589-604
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0091
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"The White Women All Go for Sex": Frances Harper on Suffrage, Citizenship, and the Reconstruction South

C. C. O'Brien
pp. 605-620
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0056
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Race, Faces, and False Fronts: Shakespearean Signifying in the Colored American Magazine

Shanna Greene Benjamin
pp. 621-631
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0063
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Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Marshall Circle: Racial Representation from Blackface to Black Naturalism

Jonathan Daigle
pp. 633-654
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0066
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A Life in Proverbs: An Interview with Anand Prahlad

Michael Kuelker
pp. 655-660
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0073
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African American Whiteness in Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills

Tim Engles
pp. 661-679
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0079
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Instruments More Perfect than Bodies: Romancing Uplift in Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist

Linda Selzer
pp. 681-698
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0059
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"Families make the best enemies": Paradoxes of Narcissistic Identification in Toni Morrison's Love

James M. Mellard
pp. 699-712
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0087
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Poetry

Song of the Andoumboulou: 93, and: Door Peep Shall Not Enter

Nathaniel Mackey
pp. 713-722
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0068
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Driving Alone, and: This Precious and Only

Barry D. Amis
p. 723
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0075
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At The Speed Of Darkness

Rane Arroyo
pp. 725-727
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0089
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Ballad of the Oscine

Chi Elliott
p. 729
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0054
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Question of Origin

Alan King
p. 731
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0061
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Sax, and: Signature, and: The Rhythm Method

Bruce Willard
pp. 733-734
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0077
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the swordsman, and: this is a good building, and: before and after (on the occasion of the third anniversary of the katrina disaster)

Treasure Williams
pp. 735-737
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0083
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Fiction

Pinch Hitter

Rochelle Spencer
pp. 739-747
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0080
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Book Reviews

Clotel, by William Wells Brown: An Electronic Scholarly Edition (review)

Lara Langer Cohen
pp. 749-751
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0086
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The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers (review)

Joycelyn Moody
pp. 751-753
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0052
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Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature (review)

Landon Moore
pp. 753-755
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0060
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Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Culture of Uplift, Identity, and Politics in Black Musical Theater (review)

Paige McGinley
pp. 755-757
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0067
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At Home Inside: A Daughter's Tribute to Ann Petry (review)

Larry R. Andrews
pp. 757-758
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0074
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Alain L. Locke: The Biography of a Philosopher, and: Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry (review)

David Krasner
pp. 759-762
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0076
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Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance (review)

J. Gosciak
pp. 762-763
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0082
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Cotton's Queer Relations: Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936-1968 (review)

John Zheng
pp. 764-765
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0088
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Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor (review)

Edward Dauterich
pp. 765-766
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0053
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New Essays on the African American Novel: From Hurston and Ellison to Morrison and Whitehead (review)

Preston Park Cooper
pp. 767-768
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0062
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Remembering Scottsboro: The Legacy of an Infamous Trial (review)

Barbara Foley
pp. 768-770
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0069
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Disturbing the Peace: Black Culture and the Police Power after Slavery (review)

Adam Gussow
pp. 770-772
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0072
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Winners Have Yet to Be Announced: A Song for Donny Hathaway (review)

Brooke Horvath
pp. 773-774
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0078
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The Funk Era and Beyond: New Perspectives on Black Popular Culture (review)

KaaVonia Hinton
pp. 774-776
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0084
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James Baldwin's Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile (review)

Carol E. Henderson
pp. 776-778
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0090
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Suzan-Lori Parks (review)

Yuko Kurahashi
pp. 778-780
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0055
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Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend (review)

Edward Margolies
pp. 780-781
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0058
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Signs of Race in Poststructuralism: Toward a Transformative Theory of Race (review)

Michelle M. Wright
pp. 782-783
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0065
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Postmodern American Literature and Its Other (review)

Yupei Zhou
pp. 783-785
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0057
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Zong! (review)

Tyrone Williams
pp. 785-787
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0064
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Contributors

Contributors

pp. 789-791
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2009.0071
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