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From: African American Review

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restricted access   Volume 45, Numbers 1-2, Spring/Summer 2012

Table of Contents

Articles

True Terror: The Haunting of Spike Lee's 25th Hour

pp. 1-16
Derik Smith
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When the Levees Broke: Inconvenient Truths and the Limits of National Identity

pp. 17-31
Anna Hartnell
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The Theater of Hustle and the Hustle of Theater: Play, Player, and Played in Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog

pp. 33-47
Michael LeMahieu
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Black Women's Labor and the Melodrama of Class Mobility in Sutton Griggs's Overshadowed

pp. 49-64
Andreá N. Williams
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"People Will Pay to Hear the Drama": Plagiarism in Clotel

pp. 65-82
Geoffrey Sanborn
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William Wells Brown's Economy of Entertainment

pp. 83-98
Bryan Sinche
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Sula's Joke on Psychoanalysis

pp. 99-113
Jennifer E. Henton
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Approaching the Thing of Slavery: A Lacanian Analysis of Toni Morrison's Beloved

pp. 115-130
Sheldon George
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The Cartography of Memory: An Ecocritical Reading of Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo

pp. 131-142
Anissa Janine Wardi
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Adapting The Bluest Eye for the Stage

pp. 143-155
Harvey Young, Jocelyn Prince
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Even Better than the Real Thing: Boris Vian, Vernon Sullivan, and Film Noir

pp. 157-166
Douglas Field
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Confronting The Stone Face: The Critical Cosmopolitanism of William Gardner Smith

pp. 167-182
Alexa Weik von Mossner
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"To Ask Again": Folklore, Mumbo Jumbo, and the Question of Ethnographic Metafictions

pp. 183-196
Shelley Ingram
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Performing the Past to Claim the Future: Sun Ra and the Afro-Future Underground, 1954-1968

pp. 197-203
Daniel Kreiss
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A Lie of Omission: Plagiarism in Nella Larsen's Quicksand

pp. 205-216
Erika Renée Williams
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Poetry and Fiction

Travels with Paul

pp. 217-223
William Schatzkamer, Laura Schatzkamer
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The Races of America

pp. 225-227
Edward Bruce Bynum
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Douglass in London 1861, and: Interrogating Wordsworth, and: Douglass in Cedar Hill

pp. 228-229
Reginald Flood
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Serengeti, and: Uhuru Peak

p. 230
Tomás Gayton
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Landing Soft, and: Feeling Us

p. 231
Vonsha Henderson
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Black Chaco Canyon Revery

pp. 232-233
Harry A. Reed
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Why Girls Walk Home, and: Affirmative Action

pp. 234-235
Michael Meyerhofer
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Breckinridge Mill Dam: Virginian Summer

p. 236
R. Flowers Rivera
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Wading in Shallow Water

p. 237
Amanda D. Thomas
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Family Reunion, 1993, and: To the Green Polka Dot Muumuu My Mother Loved to See Her Mother Wear

p. 238
L. Lamar Wilson
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Book Reviews

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable (review)

pp. 239-244
Houston A. Baker Jr.
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Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage by Vincent Carretta (review)

pp. 245-249
John C. Shields
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New Essays on Phillis Wheatley ed. by John C. Shields and Eric D. Lamore (review)

pp. 250-251
Will Harris
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Brother Mine: The Correspondence of Jean Toomer and Waldo Frank ed. by Kathleen Pfeiffer, and: Cane: A Norton Critical Edition by Jean Toomer (review)

pp. 251-255
Michael Yellin
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Heat Wave: The Life and Career of Ethel Waters by Donald Bogle (review)

pp. 255-256
Glenda E. Gill
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The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960 by Lawrence P. Jackson (review)

pp. 256-258
Michael Lackey
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The African American Roots of Modernism: From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance by James Smethurst (review)

pp. 258-261
John Lowney
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Jim Crow's Counterculture: The Blues and Black Southerners, 1890-1945 by R. A. Lawson (review)

pp. 261-263
Robert Hawkins
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Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body by Harvey Young (review)

pp. 263-265
Koritha Mitchell
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The Fiction of Gloria Naylor: Houses and Spaces of Resistance by Maxine Lavon Montgomery (review)

pp. 265-267
Shirley A. Stave
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Spectacular Blackness: The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic by Amy Abugo Ongiri (review)

pp. 267-270
Lisa Gail Collins
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Contributors

pp. 271-273
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