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Table of Contents

New Perspectives on William Demby: A Special Issue of African American Review

Melanie Masterton Sherazi, Ugo Rubeo, James C. Hall
pp. 111-119
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0016
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Man Out of Time: Beetlecreek and Midcentury Liberalism

James C. Hall
pp. 121-135
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0017
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Noir Expatriatism: Black Subjectivities in Anna's Sin

Shelleen Greene
pp. 137-150
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0018
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Ut pictura poësis: William Demby's Writings and the Roman Visual Neo-Avant-Garde

Barbara Drudi
pp. 151-162
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0019
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Africa in William Demby's The Catacombs and Love Story Black

Laila Amine
pp. 163-178
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0020
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Love Story Black and the Third Plane Novel

Kimberly Mack
pp. 179-189
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0021
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The "Funny Fairies from Downstairs": Queer Creativity in William Demby's Love Story Black

Tyler T. Schmidt
pp. 191-206
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0022
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"Tapestries of Time" and Afrofuturist Horizons in William Demby's King Comus

Melanie Masterton Sherazi
pp. 207-224
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0023
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Poetry

North Atlantic Circus, and: A State of Occupation, and: Haiti's Marché en Fer, and: Secret of La Sirène, and: Supreme Séance

Patrick Sylvain
pp. 225-229
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0024
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Notes Between the Silences: Philip Quaque

Gale Jackson
pp. 230-233
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0025
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Spotlight

Darryl Holmes
p. 234
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0026
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Judith, and: Target Practice

Jordan Honeysucker
pp. 235-236
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0027
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Odo Nnyew Fie Kwan (or, Love Never Loses Its Way)

Ayinde I. Ricco
p. 237
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0028
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Book Reviews

The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States by Derrick R. Spires (review)

DeLisa D. Hawkes
pp. 239-241
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0029
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Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition by Hollis Robbins (review)

Peter Howarth
pp. 242-245
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0030
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A Literate South: Reading Before Emancipation by Beth Barton Schweiger (review)

Brigitte Fielder
pp. 246-248
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0031
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Photographic Returns: Racial Justice and the Time of Photography by Shawn Michelle Smith (review)

Lisa Gail Collins
pp. 248-250
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0032
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Are You Entertained? Black Popular Culture in the Twenty-First Century ed. by Simone C. Drake and Dwan K. Henderson (review)

Janée A. Moses
pp. 250-253
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0033
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Stolen Time: Black Fad Performance and the Calypso Craze by Shane Vogel, and: Race and Performance after Repetition ed. by Soyica Diggs Colbert, Douglas A. Jones, Jr., and Shane Vogel (review)

Samantha Pinto
pp. 253-256
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0034
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Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism by Alex Zamalin (review)

Patrice Rankine
pp. 256-258
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0035
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Staging Black Fugitivity by Stacie Selmon McCormick (review)

Patrick Maley
pp. 258-260
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0036
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Whaling Captains of Color: America's First Meritocracy by Skip Finley (review)

Steven J. Ramold
pp. 260-261
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0037
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Freedom in Laughter: Dick Gregory, Bill Cosby, and the Civil Rights Movement by Malcolm Frierson, and: Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century by Danielle Fuentes Morgan (review)

Brittney Michelle Edmonds
pp. 261-264
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0038
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Contributors

Contributors

pp. 265-267
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0039
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