In this Issue

Table of Contents

“How come you ain’t got it?”: Dislocation as Historical Act in Hurston’s Documentary Texts

Kelley Wagers
pp. 201-216
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0055
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Crossing the Threshold: Zora Neale Hurston, Racial Performance, and Seraph on the Suwanee

Ayesha K. Hardison
pp. 217-235
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0063
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The Color of Blood: John Brown, Jean Toomer, and the New Negro Movement

Barbara Foley
pp. 237-253
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0071
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David Walker, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the Logic of Sentimental Terror

Kevin Pelletier
pp. 255-269
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0079
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“A mountain full of ghosts”: Mourning African American Masculinities in Colson Whitehead’s John Henry Days

Éva Tettenborn
pp. 271-284
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0035
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The Ghosts of Economics Past: John Henry Days and the Production of History

Peter Collins
pp. 285-300
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0043
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“Different Men in Strange Times”: The Creation of Cultural Memory in John A. Williams’s Clifford’s Blues

Uzzie Cannon
pp. 301-312
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0051
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Race, Freedom, and the Black Vampire in Jewelle Gomez’s The Gilda Stories

Jerry Rafiki Jenkins
pp. 313-328
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0060
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"Speakin Arms" and Dancing Bodies in Ntozake Shange

Sarah Mahurin
pp. 329-343
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0068
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Reading Race in Nella Larsen’s Passing and the Rhinelander Case

Rebecca Nisetich
pp. 345-361
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0076
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Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man: Secularizing the Fortunate Fall and Apocalypse

Dennis Welch, Allison Greer
pp. 363-380
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0084
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Programmed Space, Themed Space, and the Ethics of Home in Toni Morrison’s Paradise

Shari Evans
pp. 381-396
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0040
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“Where a Man is a Man”?: Ancestral Possibilities in Charles Chesnutt’s Paul Marchand, F.M.C.

Susan M. Marren
pp. 397-411
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0048
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Traditional Rebirth: The Epistolary Genre in When Washington Was in Vogue

Christina Moore
pp. 413-424
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0057
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“Don’t Turn Back”: Langston Hughes, Barack Obama, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

W. Jason Miller
pp. 425-438
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0065
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African Past or American Present?: The Visual Eloquence of James VanDerZee’s Identical Twins

Louise Siddons
pp. 439-459
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0073
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Words/Matter

Keja Valens, J. D. Scrimgeour
pp. 461-480
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0081
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Contact

Vinson Cunningham
pp. 481-485
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0037
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Ephraim and Malik

Avery Irons
pp. 486-489
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0045
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Revisions

Heru Keonte
p. 491
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0053
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Rattling the Ice

Christopher Oie Keller
p. 492
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0062
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Being Indian by Tradition

Rishan Singh
p. 493
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0070
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Song of the Cowries

Ejiofor Ugwu
p. 494
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0078
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Lamentations

Michael Compton
pp. 495-497
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0034
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Motherland: You Are the Remembrance Long Forgotten

Oscar Gonzales
pp. 498-499
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0042
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These feet were made for running, and: At the root

Jacquelyn Grant Brown
p. 500
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0050
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What I Could Say, and: Genealogy, and: Goblin Man

Kelsey Erin Shipman
p. 501
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0059
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Saturday Mornings, and: Personals, and: Care Song

Crystal Simone Smith
pp. 502-503
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0067
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no one heard it, and: To those who would remove to here

Shanita Bigelow
pp. 504-505
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0075
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On Witnessing a Man Flirt with a Woman, and: On Living Anyway, and: Circa 1995

Lhea J. Love
pp. 506-507
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0083
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Uncle James Parks, Fort Scott, 1949, and: Pool Hall, Fort Scott, 1949, and: Fight

Claude Wilkinson
pp. 508-509
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0039
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Nefertiti, and: Memoir Cleveland

Beth Brown Preston
pp. 510-511
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0047
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Rosa’s Winter, and: Sisters Mourning

John Warner Smith
pp. 512-513
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0056
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American Socialist Triptych: The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. Du Bois by Mark W. Van Wienen (review)

William J. Maxwell
pp. 515-516
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0064
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The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium by Michele Elam (review)

Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins
pp. 517-519
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0072
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Artistic Ambassadors: Literary and International Representation of the New Negro Era by Brian Russell Roberts (review)

Gerald Horne
pp. 519-520
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0080
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Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara ed. by Thabiti Lewis (review)

Stephen J. Casmier
pp. 520-524
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0036
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Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction by Jim Downs (review)

Jane E. Schultz
pp. 524-525
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0044
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Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation by Gretchen Long (review)

Susan Danielson
pp. 526-528
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0052
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Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity ed. by Maurice O. Wallace and Shawn Michelle Smith (review)

Jo-Ann Morgan
pp. 528-530
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0061
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Philosophical Meditations on Richard Wright ed. by James B. Haile III, and; Richard Wright: New Readings in the 21st Century ed. by Alice Mikal Craven and William E. Dow (review)

Mikko Tuhkanen
pp. 530-532
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0069
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Ralph Ellison and the Genius of America by Timothy Parrish (review)

Marc C. Conner
pp. 532-535
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0077
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Frank Marshall Davis: The Fire and the Phoenix, A Critical Biography by Kathryn Waddell Takara, and; The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor by Paul Kengor (review)

John Edgar Tidwell
pp. 535-540
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0085
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Early African American Print Culture ed. by Lara Langer Cohen and Jordan Alexander Stein (review)

Clint C. Wilson II
pp. 540-542
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0041
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The Fabrication of American Literature: Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture by Lara Langer Cohen (review)

Karen Roggenkamp
pp. 542-544
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0049
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Whispers of Rebellion: Narrating Gabriel’s Conspiracy by Michael L. Nicholls (review)

Junius P. Rodriguez
pp. 544-546
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0058
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Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing by Christopher Hager (review)

Antonio T. Bly
pp. 546-547
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0066
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Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America by Vivek Bald (review)

Karen Leonard
pp. 548-549
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0074
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Prove It On Me: New Negroes, Sex, and Popular Culture in the 1920s by Erin D. Chapman (review)

Sherry Johnson
pp. 549-550
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0082
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Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South by Claude A. Clegg III (review)

Kidada E. Williams
pp. 551-552
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0038
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The Government of Nature by Afaa Michael Weaver (review)

Michael Antonucci
pp. 552-554
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0046
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Contributors

pp. 555-558
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0054
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