In this Issue

Table of Contents

All Our Names

Nathan L. Grant
pp. 343-344
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0044
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Move!, and: Sounding, and: Masked Angel Costume

Amiri Baraka
pp. 345-351
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Homebound: Homeground, and: A Coltrane Poem: 9 23 98, and: Meditation for Inese, and: An Umbrella of Maple Leaves

Michael S. Harper
pp. 352-356
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0046
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The Black Experience Cannot Be Defined in One Way; The Black Experience Cannot Be Summed Up in One Word and: Get Along Cindy

Clarence Major
pp. 357-358
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0047
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Four from Chapultepec

Jay Wright
pp. 359-360
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0048
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It Goes Deep; It’s Nothing and: For the Poets (Christopher Okigbo and Henry Dumas)

Jayne Cortez
pp. 361-363
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0049
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Ivory Masks in Orbit

W. Keorapetse Kgositsile
p. 364
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Portrait; Children and: Reading Poetry by Henry Dumas While Listening to Cool Jazz

Pinkie Gordon Lane
pp. 365-367
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Black Power

Horace Coleman
p. 368
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Perhaps

Bob Kaufman
p. 369
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Umbra Poets, 1980

Tom Dent, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Muhammad Touré, Calvin Hernton
pp. 370-374
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Sometimie Woman

Amina Baraka
p. 375
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Telephone Conversations

Gwendolyn Brooks
p. 376
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The Night She Dreamed She Was Mad; the sculpture at night; The House is the Enemy; beau monde and: The Anesthesia is Taking Effect

Toi Derricotte
p. 377
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0057
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After the Heart’s Interrogation; From Across Years; Butterfly-Toed Shoes; Modern Medea and: Basilique

Yusef Komunyakaa
pp. 378-381
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New York Beirut Nagasaki; Spring, 1862; Dear Daughter and: Remembering Sally Hemings

Gale P. Jackson
pp. 382-386
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Painting in Sound

John A. Williams
pp. 387-389
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Messages: For Ntozake Shange, Secrets in Prophecy; In Paris on a Humble; Neo-African Sculpture; Enemies; The Southpaw; Thelonious; The Doves and: The Poets

Michael S. Weaver
pp. 390-398
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0061
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The First Suite (from a novel-in-progress)

Rita Dove
pp. 399-408
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Wings of the Dove

Hal Bennett
pp. 409-416
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Dumas

Jabari Asim
p. 417
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Ode

Elizabeth Alexander
p. 418
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Praise in Bluesville and: Tribal Differences

Reggie Scott Young
pp. 419-423
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Marvin Gaye’s Lament and: What can you do with a fan?

Hermine Pinson
pp. 424-427
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Hairpeace

Pearl Cleage
pp. 428-432
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my father is dead. again.

Kalamu ya Salaam
pp. 433-436
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Soon There Will Be None

Ann Allen Shockley
pp. 437-442
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The Fence

Opal J. Moore
pp. 443-450
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0071
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At the Owl Club, North Gulfport, Mississippi 1950; His Hands; Circa 1922 and: Gesture of a Woman in Process

Natasha Trethewey
pp. 451-454
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0072
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When the Neighbors Fight

Terrance Hayes
p. 455
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0073
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European Folktale Variant; Fancy Cortex and: Selection from Tanka Diary

Harryette Mullen
pp. 456-458
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Ante-Bellum, Autumn 1860, By Abraham Lincoln and: Letter to the (African Baptist) Messiah

George Elliott Clarke
pp. 459-463
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Communion; The Pine-Tree Sweetens My Body and: I’ll Take You to Africa

Cyrus Cassells
pp. 464-467
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Millie-Christine

Marilyn Nelson
pp. 468-471
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Song of the Andoumboulou: 93 and: Door Peep Shall Not Enter

Nathaniel Mackey
pp. 472-481
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0078
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The World’s Shortest African American Story

Wanda Coleman
p. 482
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0079
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Sunset

Yaa Gyasi
pp. 483-488
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The Branch of Thorns

Gail Dore
pp. 489-492
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0081
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And Another Passing: Jean Toomer

Darwin T. Turner
p. 493
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Literature and Politics: The Black Investment

Gloria Oden
pp. 494-495
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0083
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In Reply: Of Integrity, Hope and Dead Dialogue

Hoyt Fuller
pp. 495-496
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0084
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The Deification of Booker T. Washington

Charles R. Larson
pp. 497-498
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0085
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Black Idiom

Geneva Smitherman
pp. 499-505
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0086
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The White Critic in a Black World

C. W. E. Bigsby
pp. 506-512
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0087
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Balancing the Perspective, a Look at Early Black American Literary Artistry

Houston A. Baker Jr.
pp. 513-518
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0088
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Interview with Ed Bullins

John O’Brien
pp. 519-523
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0089
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Contemporary Militant Black Humor

Daryl C. Dance
pp. 524-529
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The Poetry of Black Experience as Counterpoint to the Poetry of the Black Aesthetic

Sandra Govan
pp. 530-534
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0091
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Afro-American Literature in the Soviet Union

Boris Gilenson
pp. 535-537
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0092
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Hatch-Billops Collection: Archives of Black American Cultural History

James V. Hatch, Camille Billops
pp. 538-539
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0093
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“For The Characters Are Myself”: Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro

Lorraine A. Brown
pp. 540-542
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0094
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The Black Writer: A White Perspective

Harry James Cargas
pp. 543-545
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0095
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The Barbershop in Black Literature

Trudier Harris
pp. 547-553
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0096
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Teaching Black-Eyed Susans: An Approach to the Study of Black Women Writers

Mary Helen Washington
pp. 554-558
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0097
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Defining the Black Voice in Fiction

John Wideman
pp. 559-562
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0098
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“‘We Ain’t Going Back There’”: The Idea of Progress in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

William L. Andrews
pp. 563-566
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0099
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Chaos, Complexity and Possibility: The Historical Frequencies of Ralph Waldo Ellison

John F. Callahan
pp. 567-575
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An Interview with Elma Stuckey

David Roediger
pp. 576-578
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Introductory Remarks about the Black Literary Tradition in the United States of America

Darwin T. Turner
pp. 579-586
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Two Fighters on Film

William Greaves
pp. 587-589
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0103
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Notes on a Marxist Interpretation of Black American Literature

Gloria T. Hull
pp. 591-596
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0104
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Nella Larsen’s Passing: A Problem of Interpretation

Claudia Tate
pp. 597-601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0105
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The Black Critic as Reader

Jerry W. Ward Jr.
pp. 603-605
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0106
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New Directions for Black Feminist Criticism

Deborah E. McDowell
pp. 606-612
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0107
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Black Autobiography and the Comic Vision

Richard K. Barksdale
pp. 613-618
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0108
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A Tribute to Hoyt W. Fuller (1927–1981), In Remembrance of Fire

Chester J. Fontenot, Sterling Plumpp
p. 619
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0109
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“In Respect to Females …”: Differences in the Portrayals of Women by Male and Female Narrators

Frances Foster
pp. 620-624
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0110
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Introduction: Criticism in De Jungle

Henry Louis Gates Jr.
pp. 625-629
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0111
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Negritude and Structuralism

Sunday O. Anozie
pp. 629-634
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0112
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The Critic and Society: Barthes, Leftocracy, and Other Mythologies

Wole Soyinka
pp. 635-648
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0113
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On Repetition in Black Culture

James A. Snead
pp. 648-656
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0114
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Structuralist Criticism and African Fiction: An Analytic Critique

Anthony Appiah
pp. 657-666
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0115
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“I Yam What I Am”: Naming and Unnaming in Afro-American Literature

Kimberly W. Benston
pp. 667-675
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0116
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The Distant Closeness of Dancing Doubles: Sterling Brown and William Carlos Williams

Vera M. Kutzinski
pp. 676-682
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0117
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Eruptions of Funk: Historicizing Toni Morrison

Susan Willis
pp. 683-691
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0118
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Formalism Comes to Harlem

Hortense J. Spillers
pp. 692-697
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0119
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The Sighted Eyes and Feeling Heart of Lorraine Hansberry

Margaret B. Wilkerson
pp. 698-703
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0120
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The Politics of Black Arts

Woodie King Jr.
p. 704
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0121
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The Free Southern Theatre, 1963–1979

Geneviève Fabre
pp. 705-709
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0122
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A Conversation with Etheridge Knight

Sanford Pinsker
pp. 711-714
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0123
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An Interview with Nikki Giovanni

Carrington Bonner
pp. 715-716
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0124
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Wright’s Native Son and Two Novels by Zola: A Comparative Study

Robert James Butler
pp. 717-722
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The Sexual Mountain and Black Women Writers

Calvin Hernton
pp. 723-729
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0126
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Beyond Black Macho: An Interview with Michele Wallace

Karen Boorstein
pp. 730-734
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0127
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The First Step of Becoming an Art Historian

Hilton Als
pp. 735-737
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0128
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On Behalf of Henry Dumas

Toni Morrison
pp. 739-741
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0129
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Henry Dumas’s World of Fiction

Arnold Rampersad
pp. 742-745
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0130
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Henry Dumas: The Poet of Resurrection

Ishmael Reed
p. 746
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0131
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Remembering Prof. Sterling A. Brown, 1901–1989

Sherley Anne Williams
pp. 747-749
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0132
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At the Heart of Shange’s Feminism: An Interview

Neal A. Lester
pp. 751-764
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0133
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Revision and (Re)membrance: A Theory of Literary Structures in Literature by African-American Women Writers

Karla F. C. Holloway
pp. 765-779
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0134
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Black Macho Revisited: Reflections of a Snap! Queen

Marlon T. Riggs
pp. 781-786
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0135
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An Interview with Charles Burnett

Bérénice Reynaud
pp. 787-798
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0136
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Thoughts and Concepts: The Making of Ashes and Embers

Haile Gerima
pp. 799-814
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0137
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Micheaux: Celebrating Blackness

Bell Hooks
pp. 815-824
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0138
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Encounters: The Film Odyssey of Camille Billops

Barbara Lekatsas
pp. 825-838
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0139
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“The Subject is Money”: Reconsidering the Black Film Audience as a Theoretical Paradigm

Jacqueline Bobo
pp. 839-850
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0140
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Are You as Colored as That Negro?: The Politics of Being Seen in Julie Dash’s Illusions

S. V. Hartman, Farah Jasmine Griffin
pp. 851-863
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0141
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The Enigma of Arrival: The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

Sandra Pouchet Paquet
pp. 864-876
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0142
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African-American Critical Discourse and the Invention of Cultural Identities

Tejumola Olaniyan
pp. 877-889
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0143
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Albert Murray: Literary Reconstruction of the Vernacular Community

Warren Carson
pp. 890-898
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0144
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Noir by Noirs: Towards a New Realism in Black Cinema

Manthia Diawara
pp. 899-911
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0145
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“I was a weird example of Art”: My Amputations as Cubist Confession

Stuart Klawans
pp. 912-922
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0146
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Disseminating Heterotopia

Robert F. Reid-Pharr
pp. 923-933
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0147
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Black Music On Radio During the Jazz Age

William Barlow
pp. 934-937
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0148
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Popular Fronts: Negro Story Magazine and the African American Literary Response to World War II

Bill Mullen
pp. 938-948
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0149
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The Black Church and the Harlem Renaissance

Jon Michael Spencer
pp. 949-956
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0150
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Oxherding Tale and Siddhartha: Philosophy, Fiction, and the Emergence of a Hidden Tradition

Rudolph P. Byrd
pp. 957-966
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0151
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Reading Rice: A Local Habitation and a Name

Kwame Dawes
pp. 967-977
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0152
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A Transplant That Did Not Take: August Wilson’s Views on the Great Migration

Sandra G. Shannon
pp. 979-986
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0153
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“In the Land of Cotton”: Economics and Violence in Jean Toomer’s Cane

Barbara Foley
pp. 987-1004
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0154
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“Mislike Me Not for My Complexion…”: Ira Aldridge in Whiteface

Bernth Lindfors
pp. 1005-1012
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0155
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Angularity: An Interview with Leon Forrest

Keith Byerman
pp. 1013-1024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0156
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Sugarcane as History in Paule Marshall’s “To Da-Duh, in Memoriam”

Martin Japtok
pp. 1025-1032
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0157
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Discipline and Craft: An Interview with Sonia Sanchez

Susan Kelly
pp. 1033-1041
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0158
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“A Gentleman of Superior Cultivation and Refinement”: Recovering the Biography of Frank J. Webb

Eric Gardner
pp. 1043-1054
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0159
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Baraka’s Billie Holiday as a Blues Poet of Black Longing

Farah Jasmine Griffin
pp. 1055-1062
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0160
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The Christian Recorder, Broken Families, and Educated Nations in Julia C. Collins’s Civil War Novel The Curse of Caste

P. Gabrielle Foreman
pp. 1063-1074
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0161
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Intimate Intercessions in the Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Joanne Gabbin
pp. 1075-1079
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0162
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An Interview with Edward P. Jones

Maryemma Graham
pp. 1081-1098
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0163
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True Terror: The Haunting of Spike Lee’s 25th Hour

Derik Smith
pp. 1099-1114
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0164
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Launching Black American Literature Forum, the Progenitor of African American Review

Joe Weixlmann
pp. 1115-1120
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0165
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Index of Previously Published Works

pp. 1121-1124
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0166
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