In this Issue

Table of Contents

MLA Roundtable

Assessing What Was African American Literature?; or, The State of the Field in the New Millennium

Introduction

Melissa Asher Daniels, Gregory Laski
pp. 567-570
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0050
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Our Mayan Prophecy

Adam Bradley
pp. 570-573
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0056
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Canals and Rivers

John Ernest
pp. 573-575
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0062
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On Tradition

Soyica Diggs Colbert
pp. 575-578
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0067
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Trains, Planes, and What Was African American Literature?

Russ Castronovo
pp. 578-582
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0072
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Leaving WAS Behind

Sharon P. Holland
pp. 582-584
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0077
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Response

Kenneth W. Warren
pp. 584-591
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0048
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Articles

Her Dark Materials: John Milton, Toni Morrison, and Concepts of “Dominion” in A Mercy

Tessa Roynon
pp. 593-606
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0054
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The Concatenate Poetics of Slavery and the Articulate Material of Dave the Potter

Michael A. Chaney
pp. 607-618
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0060
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The Lord Is a Man of War: John Jasper, Covenant, and Apocalypse

Christopher Z. Hobson
pp. 619-631
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0065
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Visions of Tribulation: White Gaze and Black Spectacle in Richard Wright’s Native Son and The Outsider

Becca Gercken
pp. 633-648
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0070
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New World A-Coming: African American Documentary Intertexts of the Federal Writers’ Project

J. J. Butts
pp. 649-666
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0075
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Southern Patriarchy and the Figure of the White Woman in Gwendolyn Brooks’s “A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon”

Molly Littlewood McKibbin
pp. 667-685
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0046
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Mirrors of Deception: Visualizing Blackness in the Poetry of Chicago Black Artist Johari Amini

Carmen Phelps
pp. 687-692
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0052
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Poetry and Fiction

Sunset

Yaa Gyasi
pp. 693-698
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0058
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What We Knew of Power

M. Alexis Braxton
p. 699
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0063
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The World’s Shortest African American Story

Wanda Coleman
p. 700
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0068
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Strange Death and Tragic Afterlife, and: Anti-Heroic Couplets, Written By Himself, and: Ballad of the Poet-Intellectual

Anthony Carlton Cooke
pp. 701-704
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0073
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Selection from Tanka Diary

Harryette Mullen
p. 705
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0044
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After the Yelling Stopped, and: My Grandmother Could Wring a Chicken’s Neck, and: Somewhere East of Troost, and: Yard Work, and: Borrowed Brilliance, and: The Lynch Family Blues

Glenn North
pp. 706-708
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0049
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On Earth

Sarah Stewart
p. 709
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0055
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Ode to an Ancestor, and: Illusion

Samantha Thornhill
p. 710
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0061
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Crazy Mabel

Audrey Williams
pp. 711-716
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0066
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Book Reviews

What Was African American Literature? (review)

Scott Selisker
pp. 717-719
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0071
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The Anthology of Rap (review)

Erik Nielson
pp. 719-721
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0076
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Wrestling With the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (review)

Brian Dolinar
pp. 721-722
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0047
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Three Days Before the Shooting. . . (review)

Philip Henderson
pp. 723-725
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0053
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We Wear the Mask: Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Politics of Representative Reality (review)

Thomas L. Morgan
pp. 725-727
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0059
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The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance (review)

Hildegard Hoeller
pp. 727-729
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0064
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Shaping Memories: Reflections of African American Women Writers (review)

John Lowe
pp. 729-730
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0069
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Shaping Words to Fit the Soul: The Southern Ritual Grounds of Afro-Modernism (review)

Jennifer M. Wilks
pp. 731-732
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0074
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Traumatic Possessions: The Body and Memory in African American Women’s Writing and Performance (review)

Carol E. Henderson
pp. 732-734
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0045
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Something Akin to Freedom: The Choice of Bondage in Narratives by African American Women (review)

Venetria K. Patton
pp. 734-736
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0051
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Contributors

Contributors

pp. 737-739
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0057
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