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

Derik Smith
pp. 1-16
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0004
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When the Levees Broke: Inconvenient Truths and the Limits of National Identity

Anna Hartnell
pp. 17-31
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0010
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The Theater of Hustle and the Hustle of Theater: Play, Player, and Played in Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog

Michael LeMahieu
pp. 33-47
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0016
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Black Women's Labor and the Melodrama of Class Mobility in Sutton Griggs's Overshadowed

Andreá N. Williams
pp. 49-64
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0022
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"People Will Pay to Hear the Drama": Plagiarism in Clotel

Geoffrey Sanborn
pp. 65-82
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0027
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William Wells Brown's Economy of Entertainment

Bryan Sinche
pp. 83-98
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0032
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Sula's Joke on Psychoanalysis

Jennifer E. Henton
pp. 99-113
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0002
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Approaching the Thing of Slavery: A Lacanian Analysis of Toni Morrison's Beloved

Sheldon George
pp. 115-130
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0008
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The Cartography of Memory: An Ecocritical Reading of Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo

Anissa Janine Wardi
pp. 131-142
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0014
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Adapting The Bluest Eye for the Stage

Harvey Young, Jocelyn Prince
pp. 143-155
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0020
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Even Better than the Real Thing: Boris Vian, Vernon Sullivan, and Film Noir

Douglas Field
pp. 157-166
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0025
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Confronting The Stone Face: The Critical Cosmopolitanism of William Gardner Smith

Alexa Weik von Mossner
pp. 167-182
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0030
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"To Ask Again": Folklore, Mumbo Jumbo, and the Question of Ethnographic Metafictions

Shelley Ingram
pp. 183-196
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0000
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Performing the Past to Claim the Future: Sun Ra and the Afro-Future Underground, 1954-1968

Daniel Kreiss
pp. 197-203
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0006
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A Lie of Omission: Plagiarism in Nella Larsen's Quicksand

Erika Renée Williams
pp. 205-216
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0012
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Travels with Paul

William Schatzkamer, Laura Schatzkamer
pp. 217-223
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0018
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The Races of America

Edward Bruce Bynum
pp. 225-227
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0023
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Douglass in London 1861, and: Interrogating Wordsworth, and: Douglass in Cedar Hill

Reginald Flood
pp. 228-229
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0028
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Serengeti, and: Uhuru Peak

Tomás Gayton
p. 230
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0033
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Landing Soft, and: Feeling Us

Vonsha Henderson
p. 231
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0003
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Black Chaco Canyon Revery

Harry A. Reed
pp. 232-233
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0009
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Why Girls Walk Home, and: Affirmative Action

Michael Meyerhofer
pp. 234-235
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0015
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Breckinridge Mill Dam: Virginian Summer

R. Flowers Rivera
p. 236
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0021
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Wading in Shallow Water

Amanda D. Thomas
p. 237
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0026
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Family Reunion, 1993, and: To the Green Polka Dot Muumuu My Mother Loved to See Her Mother Wear

L. Lamar Wilson
p. 238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0031
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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable (review)

Houston A. Baker Jr.
pp. 239-244
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0001
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Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage by Vincent Carretta (review)

John C. Shields
pp. 245-249
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0007
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New Essays on Phillis Wheatley ed. by John C. Shields and Eric D. Lamore (review)

Will Harris
pp. 250-251
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0035
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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)

Michael Yellin
pp. 251-255
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0036
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Heat Wave: The Life and Career of Ethel Waters by Donald Bogle (review)

Glenda E. Gill
pp. 255-256
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0013
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The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960 by Lawrence P. Jackson (review)

Michael Lackey
pp. 256-258
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0019
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The African American Roots of Modernism: From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance by James Smethurst (review)

John Lowney
pp. 258-261
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0024
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Jim Crow's Counterculture: The Blues and Black Southerners, 1890-1945 by R. A. Lawson (review)

Robert Hawkins
pp. 261-263
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0029
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Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body by Harvey Young (review)

Koritha Mitchell
pp. 263-265
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0034
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The Fiction of Gloria Naylor: Houses and Spaces of Resistance by Maxine Lavon Montgomery (review)

Shirley A. Stave
pp. 265-267
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0005
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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)

Lisa Gail Collins
pp. 267-270
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0011
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Contributors

pp. 271-273
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0017
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