In this Issue

Table of Contents

Bernier’s Experimental Poetics; or, What Was African American Experimentalism?

Robert S. Levine
pp. 496-500
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0084
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What Characters of Blood Can Offer Art Historians

Patricia Hills
pp. 501-504
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0089
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Hidden Heroes of the Black Atlantic

Alan Rice
pp. 504-510
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0094
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Tribute to the Martyrs

Eddie Chambers
pp. 510-513
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0099
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Black Is Bountiful: From Heroic Action to Artistic Heroism in Afro-Atlantic History

Richard S. Newman
pp. 514-518
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0070
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Response: When “Nothing Is Said of Black Heroes”

Celeste-Marie Bernier
pp. 518-526
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0076
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What the Folk Printed: Verse Culture and the Black Press in 1865 New Orleans

Laurel Hankins
pp. 527-540
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0082
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Race/Relations, Acts of Discernment, and Ethical Inquiry in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The House behind the Cedars

Bettina Carbonell
pp. 541-556
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0087
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Doing the Slave Trade in Different Voices: Poetics and Politics in Robert Hayden’s First “Middle Passage”

Carl Plasa
pp. 557-573
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0092
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Frances E. W. Harper’s Educational Reservations: The Indian Question in Iola Leroy

Jessica Wells Cantiello
pp. 575-592
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0097
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Langston Hughes’s “Rejuvenation Through Joy”: Passing, Racial Performance, and the Marketplace

Sonnet Retman
pp. 593-602
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0102
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“Another Map of the South Side”: Native Son as Postcolonial Novel

Anthony Reed
pp. 603-615
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0074
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The Revenge of Emmett Till: Impudent Aesthetics and the Swagger Narratives of Hip-Hop Culture

James Braxton Peterson
pp. 617-631
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0080
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There’s No Place Like Home(wood): The Transmutation of Place in the Literary Imagination of Wideman, French, and Wilson

Michael Kaffer
pp. 633-641
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0085
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Ante-Bellum, Autumn 1860 By Abraham Lincoln, and: Letter to the (African Baptist) Messiah

George Elliott Clarke
pp. 643-647
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0090
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My Name Yahyaa

Gabrielle Agasto
p. 648
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0095
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Séjour chez Moustapha Sarr / Visiting Moustapha Sarr

John Marson Dunaway
p. 649
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0100
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Song of Victor(ia), and: Andromeda

Natasha Andreil
pp. 650-651
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0071
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Untitled, and: Lumberton

Syreetta McArthur
p. 652
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0077
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Through the Neighborhoods of the World a Slow Saxophone Is Playing

Félix Grande, Ana Valverde Osan
pp. 653-655
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0083
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Nobody’s Boy

Linda Mobley Fantroy
pp. 657-659
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0088
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Albert Murray and the Aesthetic Imagination of a Nation ed. by Barbara A. Baker (review)

Daniel Matlin
pp. 661-662
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0093
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Southscapes: Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature by Thadious M. Davis (review)

Martyn Bone
pp. 662-665
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0098
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Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature by Yogita Goyal (review)

Shea Bigsby
pp. 665-667
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0103
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Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke: At the Roots of the Racial Divide by Bryan Crable (review)

Robert Butler
pp. 667-669
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0075
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Between the Lines: Transnationalism and African American Poetics by Monique-Adelle Callahan (review)

Earl E. Fitz
pp. 672-674
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0086
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Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America by Ayanna Thompson (review)

Anthony Barthelemy
pp. 674-675
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0091
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Langston Hughes and American Lynching Culture by W. Jason Miller (review)

Kimberly Banks
pp. 675-678
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0096
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Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White by Emily Bernard (review)

Warren J. Carson
pp. 678-679
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0101
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Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness by Nicole R. Fleetwood (review)

Shannon M. Cochran
pp. 680-682
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0073
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Dedication for this Issue

p. vii
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0072
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Assessing Characters of Blood; or, What Is Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination?: Introduction

Zoe Trodd
pp. 495-496
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0078
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Suzan-Lori Parks: Essays on the Plays and Other Works ed. by Philip C. Kolin (review)

Jocelyn L. Buckner
pp. 669-671
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0081
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Contributors

pp. 683-685
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2012.0079
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