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restricted access   Volume 50, Number 4, Winter 2017

Table of Contents

Foreword

All Our Names

pp. 343-344
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0044
Nathan L. Grant
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Poetry & Fiction, 1972-2013

Move!, and: Sounding, and: Masked Angel Costume

pp. 345-351
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0045
Amiri Baraka
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Homebound: Homeground, and: A Coltrane Poem: 9 23 98, and: Meditation for Inese, and: An Umbrella of Maple Leaves

pp. 352-356
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0046
Michael S. Harper
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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

pp. 357-358
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Clarence Major
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Four from Chapultepec

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

pp. 361-363
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Jayne Cortez
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Ivory Masks in Orbit

p. 364
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0050
W. Keorapetse Kgositsile
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Portrait; Children and: Reading Poetry by Henry Dumas While Listening to Cool Jazz

pp. 365-367
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0051
Pinkie Gordon Lane
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Black Power

p. 368
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0052
Horace Coleman
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Perhaps

p. 369
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0053
Bob Kaufman
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Umbra Poets, 1980

pp. 370-374
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0054
Tom Dent, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Muhammad Touré, Calvin Hernton
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Sometimie Woman

p. 375
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0055
Amina Baraka
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Telephone Conversations

p. 376
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0056
Gwendolyn Brooks
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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

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

pp. 378-381
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0058
Yusef Komunyakaa
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New York Beirut Nagasaki; Spring, 1862; Dear Daughter and: Remembering Sally Hemings

pp. 382-386
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0059
Gale P. Jackson
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Painting in Sound

pp. 387-389
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0060
John A. Williams
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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

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

pp. 399-408
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Rita Dove
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Wings of the Dove

pp. 409-416
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0063
Hal Bennett
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Dumas

p. 417
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0064
Jabari Asim
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Ode

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

pp. 419-423
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0066
Reggie Scott Young
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Marvin Gaye’s Lament and: What can you do with a fan?

pp. 424-427
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0067
Hermine Pinson
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Hairpeace

pp. 428-432
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0068
Pearl Cleage
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my father is dead. again.

pp. 433-436
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0069
Kalamu ya Salaam
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Soon There Will Be None

pp. 437-442
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Ann Allen Shockley
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The Fence

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

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

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

pp. 456-458
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0074
Harryette Mullen
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Ante-Bellum, Autumn 1860, By Abraham Lincoln and: Letter to the (African Baptist) Messiah

pp. 459-463
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0075
George Elliott Clarke
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Communion; The Pine-Tree Sweetens My Body and: I’ll Take You to Africa

pp. 464-467
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0076
Cyrus Cassells
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Millie-Christine

pp. 468-471
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0077
Marilyn Nelson
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Song of the Andoumboulou: 93 and: Door Peep Shall Not Enter

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

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

pp. 483-488
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Yaa Gyasi
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The Branch of Thorns

pp. 489-492
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0081
Gail Dore
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Essays & Interviews, 1967-1976

A Passing: First Memorial Tribute to Langston Hughes

And Another Passing: Jean Toomer

p. 493
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0082
Darwin T. Turner
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Literature and Politics: The Black Investment

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

pp. 495-496
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Hoyt Fuller
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The Deification of Booker T. Washington

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

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

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

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

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

pp. 524-529
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0090
Daryl C. Dance
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The Poetry of Black Experience as Counterpoint to the Poetry of the Black Aesthetic

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

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

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

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

pp. 543-545
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0095
Harry James Cargas
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Essays & Interviews, 1977-1986

The Barbershop in Black Literature

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

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

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

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

pp. 567-575
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0100
John F. Callahan
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An Interview with Elma Stuckey

pp. 576-578
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0101
David Roediger
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Introductory Remarks about the Black Literary Tradition in the United States of America

pp. 579-586
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0102
Darwin T. Turner
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Two Fighters on Film

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

pp. 711-714
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Sanford Pinsker
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An Interview with Nikki Giovanni

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

pp. 717-722
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0125
Robert James Butler
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The Sexual Mountain and Black Women Writers

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

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

pp. 735-737
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0128
Hilton Als
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Essays & Interviews, 1987-1996

On Behalf of Henry Dumas

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

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

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

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

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

pp. 765-779
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Karla F. C. Holloway
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Black Macho Revisited: Reflections of a Snap! Queen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

pp. 912-922
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Stuart Klawans
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Disseminating Heterotopia

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

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

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

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

pp. 957-966
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0151
Rudolph P. Byrd
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Essays & Interviews, 1997-2012

Reading Rice: A Local Habitation and a Name

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

pp. 1099-1114
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0164
Derik Smith
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Afterword

Launching Black American Literature Forum, the Progenitor of African American Review

pp. 1115-1120
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DOI: 10.1353/afa.2017.0165
Joe Weixlmann
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Index

Index of Previously Published Works

pp. 1121-1124
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