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  1. All Our Names
  2. Nathan L. Grant
  3. pp. 343-344
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0044
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  1. Move!, and: Sounding, and: Masked Angel Costume
  2. Amiri Baraka
  3. pp. 345-351
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0045
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  1. Four from Chapultepec
  2. Jay Wright
  3. pp. 359-360
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0048
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  1. It Goes Deep; It’s Nothing and: For the Poets (Christopher Okigbo and Henry Dumas)
  2. Jayne Cortez
  3. pp. 361-363
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0049
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  1. Ivory Masks in Orbit
  2. W. Keorapetse Kgositsile
  3. p. 364
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0050
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  1. Portrait; Children and: Reading Poetry by Henry Dumas While Listening to Cool Jazz
  2. Pinkie Gordon Lane
  3. pp. 365-367
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0051
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  1. Black Power
  2. Horace Coleman
  3. p. 368
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0052
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  1. Perhaps
  2. Bob Kaufman
  3. p. 369
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0053
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  1. Umbra Poets, 1980
  2. Tom Dent, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Muhammad Touré, Calvin Hernton
  3. pp. 370-374
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0054
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  1. Sometimie Woman
  2. Amina Baraka
  3. p. 375
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0055
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  1. Telephone Conversations
  2. Gwendolyn Brooks
  3. p. 376
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0056
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  1. New York Beirut Nagasaki; Spring, 1862; Dear Daughter and: Remembering Sally Hemings
  2. Gale P. Jackson
  3. pp. 382-386
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0059
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  1. Painting in Sound
  2. John A. Williams
  3. pp. 387-389
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0060
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  1. The First Suite (from a novel-in-progress)
  2. Rita Dove
  3. pp. 399-408
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0062
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  1. Wings of the Dove
  2. Hal Bennett
  3. pp. 409-416
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0063
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  1. Dumas
  2. Jabari Asim
  3. p. 417
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0064
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  1. Ode
  2. Elizabeth Alexander
  3. p. 418
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0065
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  1. Praise in Bluesville and: Tribal Differences
  2. Reggie Scott Young
  3. pp. 419-423
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0066
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  1. Marvin Gaye’s Lament and: What can you do with a fan?
  2. Hermine Pinson
  3. pp. 424-427
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0067
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  1. Hairpeace
  2. Pearl Cleage
  3. pp. 428-432
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0068
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  1. my father is dead. again.
  2. Kalamu ya Salaam
  3. pp. 433-436
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0069
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  1. Soon There Will Be None
  2. Ann Allen Shockley
  3. pp. 437-442
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0070
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  1. The Fence
  2. Opal J. Moore
  3. pp. 443-450
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0071
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  1. When the Neighbors Fight
  2. Terrance Hayes
  3. p. 455
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0073
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  1. European Folktale Variant; Fancy Cortex and: Selection from Tanka Diary
  2. Harryette Mullen
  3. pp. 456-458
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0074
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  1. Ante-Bellum, Autumn 1860, By Abraham Lincoln and: Letter to the (African Baptist) Messiah
  2. George Elliott Clarke
  3. pp. 459-463
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0075
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  1. Communion; The Pine-Tree Sweetens My Body and: I’ll Take You to Africa
  2. Cyrus Cassells
  3. pp. 464-467
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0076
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  1. Millie-Christine
  2. Marilyn Nelson
  3. pp. 468-471
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0077
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  1. Song of the Andoumboulou: 93 and: Door Peep Shall Not Enter
  2. Nathaniel Mackey
  3. pp. 472-481
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0078
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  1. The World’s Shortest African American Story
  2. Wanda Coleman
  3. p. 482
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0079
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  1. Sunset
  2. Yaa Gyasi
  3. pp. 483-488
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0080
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  1. The Branch of Thorns
  2. Gail Dore
  3. pp. 489-492
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0081
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  1. And Another Passing: Jean Toomer
  2. Darwin T. Turner
  3. p. 493
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0082
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  1. Literature and Politics: The Black Investment
  2. Gloria Oden
  3. pp. 494-495
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0083
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  1. In Reply: Of Integrity, Hope and Dead Dialogue
  2. Hoyt Fuller
  3. pp. 495-496
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0084
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  1. The Deification of Booker T. Washington
  2. Charles R. Larson
  3. pp. 497-498
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0085
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  1. Black Idiom
  2. Geneva Smitherman
  3. pp. 499-505
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0086
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  1. The White Critic in a Black World
  2. C. W. E. Bigsby
  3. pp. 506-512
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0087
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  1. Balancing the Perspective, a Look at Early Black American Literary Artistry
  2. Houston A. Baker Jr.
  3. pp. 513-518
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0088
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  1. Interview with Ed Bullins
  2. John O’Brien
  3. pp. 519-523
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0089
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  1. Contemporary Militant Black Humor
  2. Daryl C. Dance
  3. pp. 524-529
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0090
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  1. The Poetry of Black Experience as Counterpoint to the Poetry of the Black Aesthetic
  2. Sandra Govan
  3. pp. 530-534
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0091
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  1. Afro-American Literature in the Soviet Union
  2. Boris Gilenson
  3. pp. 535-537
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0092
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  1. Hatch-Billops Collection: Archives of Black American Cultural History
  2. James V. Hatch, Camille Billops
  3. pp. 538-539
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0093
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  1. “For The Characters Are Myself”: Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro
  2. Lorraine A. Brown
  3. pp. 540-542
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0094
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  1. The Black Writer: A White Perspective
  2. Harry James Cargas
  3. pp. 543-545
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0095
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  1. The Barbershop in Black Literature
  2. Trudier Harris
  3. pp. 547-553
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0096
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  1. Teaching Black-Eyed Susans: An Approach to the Study of Black Women Writers
  2. Mary Helen Washington
  3. pp. 554-558
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0097
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  1. Defining the Black Voice in Fiction
  2. John Wideman
  3. pp. 559-562
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0098
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  1. Chaos, Complexity and Possibility: The Historical Frequencies of Ralph Waldo Ellison
  2. John F. Callahan
  3. pp. 567-575
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0100
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  1. An Interview with Elma Stuckey
  2. David Roediger
  3. pp. 576-578
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0101
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  1. Introductory Remarks about the Black Literary Tradition in the United States of America
  2. Darwin T. Turner
  3. pp. 579-586
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0102
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  1. Two Fighters on Film
  2. William Greaves
  3. pp. 587-589
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0103
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  1. Notes on a Marxist Interpretation of Black American Literature
  2. Gloria T. Hull
  3. pp. 591-596
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0104
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  1. Nella Larsen’s Passing: A Problem of Interpretation
  2. Claudia Tate
  3. pp. 597-601
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0105
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  1. The Black Critic as Reader
  2. Jerry W. Ward Jr.
  3. pp. 603-605
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0106
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  1. New Directions for Black Feminist Criticism
  2. Deborah E. McDowell
  3. pp. 606-612
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0107
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  1. Black Autobiography and the Comic Vision
  2. Richard K. Barksdale
  3. pp. 613-618
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0108
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  1. A Tribute to Hoyt W. Fuller (1927–1981), In Remembrance of Fire
  2. Chester J. Fontenot, Sterling Plumpp
  3. p. 619
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0109
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  1. “In Respect to Females …”: Differences in the Portrayals of Women by Male and Female Narrators
  2. Frances Foster
  3. pp. 620-624
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0110
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  1. Introduction: Criticism in De Jungle
  2. Henry Louis Gates Jr.
  3. pp. 625-629
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0111
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  1. Negritude and Structuralism
  2. Sunday O. Anozie
  3. pp. 629-634
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0112
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  1. The Critic and Society: Barthes, Leftocracy, and Other Mythologies
  2. Wole Soyinka
  3. pp. 635-648
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0113
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  1. On Repetition in Black Culture
  2. James A. Snead
  3. pp. 648-656
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0114
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  1. Structuralist Criticism and African Fiction: An Analytic Critique
  2. Anthony Appiah
  3. pp. 657-666
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0115
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  1. “I Yam What I Am”: Naming and Unnaming in Afro-American Literature
  2. Kimberly W. Benston
  3. pp. 667-675
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0116
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  1. The Distant Closeness of Dancing Doubles: Sterling Brown and William Carlos Williams
  2. Vera M. Kutzinski
  3. pp. 676-682
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0117
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  1. Eruptions of Funk: Historicizing Toni Morrison
  2. Susan Willis
  3. pp. 683-691
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0118
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  1. Formalism Comes to Harlem
  2. Hortense J. Spillers
  3. pp. 692-697
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0119
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  1. The Sighted Eyes and Feeling Heart of Lorraine Hansberry
  2. Margaret B. Wilkerson
  3. pp. 698-703
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0120
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  1. The Politics of Black Arts
  2. Woodie King Jr.
  3. p. 704
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0121
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  1. The Free Southern Theatre, 1963–1979
  2. Geneviève Fabre
  3. pp. 705-709
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0122
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  1. A Conversation with Etheridge Knight
  2. Sanford Pinsker
  3. pp. 711-714
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0123
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  1. An Interview with Nikki Giovanni
  2. Carrington Bonner
  3. pp. 715-716
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0124
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  1. Wright’s Native Son and Two Novels by Zola: A Comparative Study
  2. Robert James Butler
  3. pp. 717-722
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0125
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  1. The Sexual Mountain and Black Women Writers
  2. Calvin Hernton
  3. pp. 723-729
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0126
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  1. Beyond Black Macho: An Interview with Michele Wallace
  2. Karen Boorstein
  3. pp. 730-734
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0127
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  1. The First Step of Becoming an Art Historian
  2. Hilton Als
  3. pp. 735-737
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0128
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  1. On Behalf of Henry Dumas
  2. Toni Morrison
  3. pp. 739-741
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0129
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  1. Henry Dumas’s World of Fiction
  2. Arnold Rampersad
  3. pp. 742-745
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0130
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  1. Henry Dumas: The Poet of Resurrection
  2. Ishmael Reed
  3. p. 746
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0131
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  1. Remembering Prof. Sterling A. Brown, 1901–1989
  2. Sherley Anne Williams
  3. pp. 747-749
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0132
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  1. At the Heart of Shange’s Feminism: An Interview
  2. Neal A. Lester
  3. pp. 751-764
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0133
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  1. Black Macho Revisited: Reflections of a Snap! Queen
  2. Marlon T. Riggs
  3. pp. 781-786
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0135
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  1. An Interview with Charles Burnett
  2. Bérénice Reynaud
  3. pp. 787-798
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0136
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  1. Thoughts and Concepts: The Making of Ashes and Embers
  2. Haile Gerima
  3. pp. 799-814
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0137
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  1. Micheaux: Celebrating Blackness
  2. Bell Hooks
  3. pp. 815-824
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0138
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  1. Encounters: The Film Odyssey of Camille Billops
  2. Barbara Lekatsas
  3. pp. 825-838
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0139
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  1. “The Subject is Money”: Reconsidering the Black Film Audience as a Theoretical Paradigm
  2. Jacqueline Bobo
  3. pp. 839-850
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0140
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  1. The Enigma of Arrival: The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
  2. Sandra Pouchet Paquet
  3. pp. 864-876
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0142
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  1. African-American Critical Discourse and the Invention of Cultural Identities
  2. Tejumola Olaniyan
  3. pp. 877-889
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0143
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  1. Albert Murray: Literary Reconstruction of the Vernacular Community
  2. Warren Carson
  3. pp. 890-898
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0144
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  1. Noir by Noirs: Towards a New Realism in Black Cinema
  2. Manthia Diawara
  3. pp. 899-911
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0145
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  1. “I was a weird example of Art”: My Amputations as Cubist Confession
  2. Stuart Klawans
  3. pp. 912-922
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0146
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  1. Disseminating Heterotopia
  2. Robert F. Reid-Pharr
  3. pp. 923-933
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0147
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  1. Black Music On Radio During the Jazz Age
  2. William Barlow
  3. pp. 934-937
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0148
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  1. Popular Fronts: Negro Story Magazine and the African American Literary Response to World War II
  2. Bill Mullen
  3. pp. 938-948
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0149
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  1. The Black Church and the Harlem Renaissance
  2. Jon Michael Spencer
  3. pp. 949-956
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0150
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  1. Oxherding Tale and Siddhartha: Philosophy, Fiction, and the Emergence of a Hidden Tradition
  2. Rudolph P. Byrd
  3. pp. 957-966
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0151
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  1. Reading Rice: A Local Habitation and a Name
  2. Kwame Dawes
  3. pp. 967-977
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0152
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  1. A Transplant That Did Not Take: August Wilson’s Views on the Great Migration
  2. Sandra G. Shannon
  3. pp. 979-986
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0153
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  1. “In the Land of Cotton”: Economics and Violence in Jean Toomer’s Cane
  2. Barbara Foley
  3. pp. 987-1004
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0154
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  1. “Mislike Me Not for My Complexion…”: Ira Aldridge in Whiteface
  2. Bernth Lindfors
  3. pp. 1005-1012
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0155
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  1. Angularity: An Interview with Leon Forrest
  2. Keith Byerman
  3. pp. 1013-1024
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0156
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  1. Sugarcane as History in Paule Marshall’s “To Da-Duh, in Memoriam”
  2. Martin Japtok
  3. pp. 1025-1032
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0157
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  1. Discipline and Craft: An Interview with Sonia Sanchez
  2. Susan Kelly
  3. pp. 1033-1041
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0158
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  1. “A Gentleman of Superior Cultivation and Refinement”: Recovering the Biography of Frank J. Webb
  2. Eric Gardner
  3. pp. 1043-1054
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0159
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  1. Baraka’s Billie Holiday as a Blues Poet of Black Longing
  2. Farah Jasmine Griffin
  3. pp. 1055-1062
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0160
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  1. Intimate Intercessions in the Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar
  2. Joanne Gabbin
  3. pp. 1075-1079
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0162
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  1. An Interview with Edward P. Jones
  2. Maryemma Graham
  3. pp. 1081-1098
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0163
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  1. True Terror: The Haunting of Spike Lee’s 25th Hour
  2. Derik Smith
  3. pp. 1099-1114
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0164
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  1. Launching Black American Literature Forum, the Progenitor of African American Review
  2. Joe Weixlmann
  3. pp. 1115-1120
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0165
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  1. Index of Previously Published Works
  2. pp. 1121-1124
  3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2017.0166
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