In this Issue

Table of Contents

Black Print Cultures of the Civil War Era

A Special Section

Embracing the Incomplete: Speculative Reading in The Curse of Caste, Minnie’s Sacrifice, and the Christian Recorder

Brigitte Fielder
pp. 1-16
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0000
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The New Era’s More Civil War: How Big a Tent?

Kathleen Diffley
pp. 17-31
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0001
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Aliened Americans: Pseudonymity and Gender Politics in Early Black Social Media

Derrick R. Spires
pp. 33-49
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0002
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Articles

The Disalienating Realism of William Attaway’s Blood on the Forge: Rethinking Black Chicago Renaissance Aesthetics

Juan Rodriguez Barrera
pp. 51-67
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0003
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James Baldwin’s Readers: White Innocence and the Reception of “Letter from a Region in My Mind”

Ben Fried
pp. 69-85
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0004
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Poetry

For Derek Walcott, and: On Nights Like This, and: New Land

Rasaq Malik
pp. 87-88
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0005
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Black Butterfly

Gabriel Ratcliffe
p. 89
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0006
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Distance Between Us, and: Answered, and: Breath

Peggy Ann Tartt
pp. 90-92
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0007
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Book Reviews

Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States ed. by Shirley Samuels (review)

Ashley Rattner
pp. 93-95
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0008
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Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality by Jennifer Nash (review)

Brenna M. Casey
pp. 95-97
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0009
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Brick City Vanguard: Amiri Baraka, Black Music, Black Modernity by James Smethurst (review)

Matthew Calihman
pp. 97-99
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0010
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Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal by Kate Dossett (review)

Sara Rutkowski
pp. 99-101
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0011
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Navigating the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines: A Roadmap for Readers by Keith Clark (review)

William R. Nash
pp. 101-102
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0012
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Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement by Isiah Lavender III (review)

Marina Magloire
pp. 102-104
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0013
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The Blackademic Life: Academic Fiction, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual by Lavelle Porter (review)

Stephanie Brown
pp. 104-107
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0014
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Contributors

Contributors

p. 109
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0015
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