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African American Review is a scholarly aggregation of insightful essays on African American literature, theatre, film, the visual arts, and culture; interviews; poetry; fiction; and book reviews. Published quarterly, AAR has featured renowned writers and cultural critics including Trudier Harris, Arnold Rampersad, Hortense Spillers, Amiri Baraka, Cyrus Cassells, Rita Dove, Charles Johnson, Cheryl Wall, and Toni Morrison. The official publication of LLC African American of the Modern Language Association, AAR fosters a vigorous conversation among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
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Volume 50, Number 4, Winter 2017Table of Contents

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View Summary of Homebound: Homeground, and: A Coltrane Poem: 9 23 98, and: Meditation for Inese, and: An Umbrella of Maple Leaves
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View Summary of The Black Experience Cannot Be Defined in One Way; The Black Experience Cannot Be Summed Up in One Word and: Get Along Cindy
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View Summary of The Night She Dreamed She Was Mad; the sculpture at night; The House is the Enemy; beau monde and: The Anesthesia is Taking Effect
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View Summary of After the Heart’s Interrogation; From Across Years; Butterfly-Toed Shoes; Modern Medea and: Basilique
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View Summary of Messages: For Ntozake Shange, Secrets in Prophecy; In Paris on a Humble; Neo-African Sculpture; Enemies; The Southpaw; Thelonious; The Doves and: The Poets
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View Summary of At the Owl Club, North Gulfport, Mississippi 1950; His Hands; Circa 1922 and: Gesture of a Woman in Process
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View Summary of “‘We Ain’t Going Back There’”: The Idea of Progress in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
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View Summary of “In Respect to Females …”: Differences in the Portrayals of Women by Male and Female Narrators
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View Summary of Revision and (Re)membrance: A Theory of Literary Structures in Literature by African-American Women Writers
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View Summary of Popular Fronts: Negro Story Magazine and the African American Literary Response to World War II
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View Summary of Oxherding Tale and Siddhartha: Philosophy, Fiction, and the Emergence of a Hidden Tradition
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View Summary of “A Gentleman of Superior Cultivation and Refinement”: Recovering the Biography of Frank J. Webb
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View Summary of The Christian Recorder, Broken Families, and Educated Nations in Julia C. Collins’s Civil War Novel The Curse of Caste
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ISSN | 1945-6182 |
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Print ISSN | 1062-4783 |
Launched on MUSE | 2018-03-13 |
Open Access | No |
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