+ MUSE Alert

In this Issue

Table of Contents

  1. “Oh, Catfish and Turnip Greens”: Black Oral Traditions in the Poetry of Marilyn Nelson
  2. William Kelley Woolfitt
  3. pp. 231-246
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0037
  5. restricted access
    • View HTML View
    • Download PDF Download
  1. One Blues Invisible: Civil Rights and Civil Religion in Ralph Ellison’s Second Novel
  2. M. Cooper Harriss
  3. pp. 247-266
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0040
  5. restricted access
    • View HTML View
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Dubwise into the Future: Versioning Modernity in Nalo Hopkinson
  2. Leif Sorensen
  3. pp. 267-283
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0043
  5. restricted access
    • View HTML View
    • Download PDF Download
  1. With Names, No Coincidence: Colson Whitehead’s Postracial Puritan Allegory
  2. Christopher Leise
  3. pp. 285-300
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0046
  5. restricted access
    • View HTML View
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Walking Around the Fences: Troy Maxson and the Ideology of “Going Down Swinging”
  2. David Letzler
  3. pp. 301-312
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0049
  5. restricted access
    • View HTML View
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Creative Multivalence: Social Engagement beyond Naturalism in Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha
  2. Megan K. Ahern
  3. pp. 313-326
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0032
  5. restricted access
    • View HTML View
    • Download PDF Download
  1. The Slave Trade as Memory and History: James A. Emanuel’s “The Middle Passage Blues” and Robert Hayden’s “Middle Passage”
  2. Raphaël Lambert
  3. pp. 327-338
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0035
  5. restricted access
    • View HTML View
    • Download PDF Download
  1. “A Twentieth-Century Abolitionist”: John Beecher’s Plainspoken Poetry
  2. Christopher G. Diller
  3. pp. 339-356
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0039
  5. restricted access
    • View HTML View
    • Download PDF Download
  1. LeRoi Jones’s Radio and the Literary “Break” from Ellison to Burroughs
  2. K. C. Harrison
  3. pp. 357-374
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0042
  5. restricted access
    • View HTML View
    • Download PDF Download
  1. L as Language: Love and Ethics
  2. Cynthia R. Wallace
  3. pp. 375-390
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0045
  5. restricted access
    • View HTML View
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Under Lynching’s Shadow: Grimké’s Call for Domestic Reconfiguration in Rachel
  2. Anne Mai Yee Jansen
  3. pp. 391-402
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0048
  5. restricted access
    • View HTML View
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Bob Kaufman and the Limits of Jazz
  2. H. William Rice
  3. pp. 403-415
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0031
  5. restricted access
    • View HTML View
    • Download PDF Download
  1. The Subterranean Performance of History between Harlem and Rome in William Demby’s The Catacombs
  2. Sara Marzioli
  3. pp. 417-419
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0034
  5. restricted access
    • View HTML View
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Bedtime Stories
  2. Justin Campbell
  3. pp. 431-434
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0038
  5. restricted access
    • View HTML View
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Past-life portrait
  2. t’ai freedom ford
  3. pp. 435-436
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0044
  5. restricted access
    • View HTML View
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Darfur Boy
  2. Alexander Levering Kern
  3. p. 437
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0047
  5. restricted access
    • View HTML View
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Satchmo, and: Second Linin’
  2. Andrew Pidoux
  3. p. 438
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0050
  5. restricted access
    • View HTML View
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Oshian
  2. Grant Schubert
  3. pp. 440-443
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0033
  5. restricted access
    • View HTML View
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Contributors
  3. pp. 445-446
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0036
  5. restricted access
    • View HTML View
    • Download PDF Download