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Special Issue:
On Black Performance
Guest Editor:
Soyica Colbert
African American Review is a scholarly aggregation of insightful essays on African American literature, theatre, film, the visual arts, and culture; interviews; poetry; fiction; and book reviews. Published quarterly, AAR has featured renowned writers and cultural critics including Trudier Harris, Arnold Rampersad, Hortense Spillers, Amiri Baraka, Cyrus Cassells, Rita Dove, Charles Johnson, Cheryl Wall, and Toni Morrison. The official publication of LLC African American of the Modern Language Association, AAR fosters a vigorous conversation among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
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Volume 45, Number 3, Fall 2012Table of Contents
pp. 277-290
pp. 291-308
pp. 309-323
pp. 325-339
pp. 341-353
pp. 355-369
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View “Fasten Your Shackles”: Remembering Slavery and Laughing about It in George C. Wolfe’s The Colored Museum
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pp. 371-389
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View “The People Inside My Head, Too”: Madness, Black Womanhood, and the Radical Performance of Lauryn Hill
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pp. 391-402
pp. 403-418
pp. 419-435
pp. 437-440
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View William Brewster at Niskeyuna, 1778, and: Mother’s Abduction, and: Anna Middleton, 1786-1861, and: Dinah the African, and: My Daddy General Montgomery, and: The Black Family
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pp. 441-442
pp. 444-445
pp. 449-451
pp. 459-463
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View In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939 by Minkah Makalani, and: Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995 by Cheryl Higashida (review)
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pp. 463-466
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View Toni Morrison’s A Mercy: Critical Approaches ed. by Shirley A. Stave and Justine Tally (review)
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pp. 466-468
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View The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (review)
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pp. 469-470
pp. 470-472
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View In Search of Asylum: The Later Writings of Eric Walrond ed. by Louis J. Parascandola and Carl A. Wade (review)
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pp. 472-476
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View A Hairdresser’s Experience in High Life by Eliza Potter, and: Speaking Lives, Authoring Texts: Three African American Women’s Oral Slave Narratives ed. by DoVeanna S. Fulton Minor and Reginald H. Pitts (review)
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pp. 476-478
pp. 479-480
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View Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle by Leigh Raiford (review)
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pp. 480-485
pp. 485-487
pp. 487-488
pp. 489-490
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View To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death by Suzanne E. Smith (review)
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pp. 490-491
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View Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment ed. by Richard Carlin and Kinshasha Holman Conwill (review)
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| ISSN | 1945-6182 |
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| Print ISSN | 1062-4783 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2013-09-03 |
| Open Access | No |
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