In this Issue

Table of Contents

“Oh, Catfish and Turnip Greens”: Black Oral Traditions in the Poetry of Marilyn Nelson

William Kelley Woolfitt
pp. 231-246
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0037
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One Blues Invisible: Civil Rights and Civil Religion in Ralph Ellison’s Second Novel

M. Cooper Harriss
pp. 247-266
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0040
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Dubwise into the Future: Versioning Modernity in Nalo Hopkinson

Leif Sorensen
pp. 267-283
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0043
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With Names, No Coincidence: Colson Whitehead’s Postracial Puritan Allegory

Christopher Leise
pp. 285-300
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0046
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Walking Around the Fences: Troy Maxson and the Ideology of “Going Down Swinging”

David Letzler
pp. 301-312
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0049
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Creative Multivalence: Social Engagement beyond Naturalism in Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha

Megan K. Ahern
pp. 313-326
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0032
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The Slave Trade as Memory and History: James A. Emanuel’s “The Middle Passage Blues” and Robert Hayden’s “Middle Passage”

Raphaël Lambert
pp. 327-338
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0035
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“A Twentieth-Century Abolitionist”: John Beecher’s Plainspoken Poetry

Christopher G. Diller
pp. 339-356
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0039
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LeRoi Jones’s Radio and the Literary “Break” from Ellison to Burroughs

K. C. Harrison
pp. 357-374
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0042
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L as Language: Love and Ethics

Cynthia R. Wallace
pp. 375-390
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0045
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Under Lynching’s Shadow: Grimké’s Call for Domestic Reconfiguration in Rachel

Anne Mai Yee Jansen
pp. 391-402
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0048
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Bob Kaufman and the Limits of Jazz

H. William Rice
pp. 403-415
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0031
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The Subterranean Performance of History between Harlem and Rome in William Demby’s The Catacombs

Sara Marzioli
pp. 417-419
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0034
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Bedtime Stories

Justin Campbell
pp. 431-434
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0038
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Past-life portrait

t’ai freedom ford
pp. 435-436
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0044
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Darfur Boy

Alexander Levering Kern
p. 437
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0047
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Satchmo, and: Second Linin’

Andrew Pidoux
p. 438
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0050
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Oshian

Grant Schubert
pp. 440-443
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0033
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Contributors

pp. 445-446
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2014.0036
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