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Table of Contents

Black Surrealisms: “Cymbals of Deeper Experience”

Grégory Pierrot, Abigail Susik
pp. 1-10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a973157
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An Epistemology of Self-Knowing: Suzanne Césaire, André Breton, and Caribbean Surrealism

Kathy Lou Schultz
pp. 11-29
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a973158
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Blues People and the Poetic Spirit: Recovering Surrealism’s Revolutionary Politics

Robin D. G. Kelley
pp. 31-43
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a973159
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“Somewhere in Advance of Nowhere”: Harmolodic Choruses for Jayne Cortez

Aldon Lynn Nielsen
pp. 45-56
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a973160
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When Negroes Speak of Rivers: Miamian Négritude in Sarah Maldoror’s Film Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words

Terri Francis
pp. 57-76
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a973161
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Ja’Tovia Gary’s Superlative Surrealism

Tiffany E. Barber
pp. 77-95
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a973162
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An Excerpt from Origin of a Big Chief

Bernardo Wade
pp. 97-101
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a973163
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Listening to Fractions, and: On Transhuman Vicinity, and: Hyphenated Friction, and: According to Pluperfect Atom, and: As Aural Amount

Will Alexander
pp. 103-105
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a973164
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The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown by Martha J. Cutter (review)

Tynes Cowan
pp. 107-109
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a973165
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The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice ed. by William A. Darity, Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen, and Lucas Hubbard (review)

Christopher M. Tinson
pp. 109-113
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a973166
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Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture by Robert G. O’Meally (review)

Bryan Crable
pp. 113-116
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a973167
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Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird by Gene Andrew Jarrett (review)

Hollis Robbins
pp. 116-120
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a973168
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Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries by Coretta M. Pittman (review)

Julia Simon
pp. 120-123
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a973169
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Contingent Encounters: Improvisation in Music and Everyday Life by Dan DiPiero (review)

Sheila Liming
pp. 123-126
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a973170
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Black Celebrity: Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists by Emily Ruth Rutter, and: Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture by Aria S. Halliday (review)

Janée A. Moses
pp. 126-129
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a973171
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Victory Is Assured: Uncollected Writings of Stanley Crouch by Stanley Crouch (review)

Timothy Parrish
pp. 129-133
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a973172
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The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom by Thulani Davis (review)

John C. Rodrigue
pp. 133-136
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a973173
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Contributors

pp. 137-140
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a973174
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