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Introduction 1

1 Mapping the Rhetoric,Politics,and Poetics of Representation in the Contemporary African American Novel 9

A Critique of Eurocentric,Afrocentric,and Americentric Cultural Theories,Critics,and Criticism 13

A Postcolonial African Americentric,Neomasculinist Theory of Antiblack Racism and Internal Colonialism 29

An African Americentric Vernacular Theory of Culture and Identity 44

Core Black American Culture 49

The Vernacular Tradition and the Rhetoric,Dialectics,and Dialogics of the Contemporary African American Novel 56

2 The Roots of the Contemporary African American Novel 59

Sociohistorical,Sociocultural,and Sociopsychological Landscape 60

African Oral Narrative Roots 73

African American Folk Roots 75

Residually Oral Forms:Oratory,Myth,Legend,Tale,andsong 78

Literary Sources and Branches 84

ABOLITIONIST LITERATURE 85

THE KING JAMES BIBLE 87

POPULAR FICTION 89

3 Mapping the Peaks and Valleys of the African American Novel(1853-1962) 94

Early Historical Romance,Social Realism,and Beyond 94

Antebellum and Civil War Novels(1853-1865) 95

Postbellum,Reconstruction,and Post-Reconstruction Novels(1865-1902) 96

The Pre-World War I Novel of the Old Guard(1902-1917) 98

ROMANCE,REALISM,AND NATURALISM 100

LEGACY OF THE OLD GUARD 103

Modernism,the Harlem Renaissance,and the Search for New Modes of Narrative(1917-1936) 104

POETIC REALISM AND HISTORICAL ROMANCE 108

GENTEEL REALISM:ASSIMILATIONISM,NATIONALISM,OR BICULTURALISM 108

FOLK ROMANCE:PRIMITIVISM,PASTORALISM,AND ANCESTRALISM 110

FOLK REALISM:RELIGION,MUSIC,HUMOR,AND LANGUAGE 114

SATIRIC REALISM:THE VICES AND FOLLIES OF THE FOLK AND BLACK BOURGEOISIE 115

Richard Wright and the Triumph of Naturalism(1936-1952) 117

WRIGHT AND THE"CHICAGO SCHOOL" OF SOCIOLOGY 118

THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE COMMUNIST PARTY 118

THE FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT 121

THE TRIUMPH OF NATURALISM 121

CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN THE NOVELS OF THE FORTIES 122

Myth,Legend,and Ritual in the Novels of the Fifties(1952-1962) 124

BEYOND NATURALISM 125

MYTH, LEGEND,AND RITUAL 128

4 Forms of Neorealism:Critical and Poetic Realism(1962-1983) 130

The Black Power and Black Arts Movements 130

The Women's Rights and Black Feminist Movements 134

Literary Continuity and Change:Modernism and Neorealism 138

Critical and Poetic Neorealism 140

CRITICAL REALISM 141

JOHN OLIVER KILLENS(1916-1987) 142

JOHN A[LFRED] WILLIAMS(1925-) 147

ALICE[MALSENIOR]WALKER(1944-) 153

GAYL[AMANDA]JONES(1949-) 161

[MILTONA]TONI[MIRKIN]CADE BAMBARA(1939-1995) 168

POETIC REALISM AND THE GOTHIC FABLE 174

[CHLOE ANTHONY]TONI[WOFFORD]MORRISON(1931-) 174

Continuity in the Novel of the Sixties and Seventies 182

5 Modernism and Postmodernism(1962-1983) 186

From Modernism and Structuralism to Poststructuralism and Postmodernism 187

Fabulation,Legend,and Neoslave Narrative 195

MARGARET [ABIGAIL]WALKER(1915-1998) 195

ERNEST J[AMES]GAINES(1933-) 199

WILLIAM MELVIN KELLEY(1937-) 207

RONALD L.FAIR(1932-) 213

Fabulation,Romance,and Fantasy 216

JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN(1941-) 217

CLARENCE[LEE]MAJOR(1936-) 226

Fabulation and Satire 232

CHARLES STEVENSON WRIGHT(1932-) 232

[GEORGE HAROLD]HAL BENNETT(1930-) 235

ISHMAEL REED(1938-) 240

Change in the Novel of the Sixties and Seventies 248

6 Continuity and Change in Ethnic Tropes of Identity Formation(1983-2001) 250

The Contemporary Black Aesthetic:Afrocentric and Diasporic Tropes of African American Identity and Community 257

PAULE[VALENZA PAULINE BURKE]MARSHALL(1929-) 263

ALBERT[LEE] MURRAY(1916-) 270

GLORIA NAYLOR(1950-) 277

AL[BERT JAMES] YOUNG(1939-) 282

DAVID[HENRY]BRADLEY[JR.](1950-) 286

LEON[RICHARD]FORREST(1937-1997) 295

7 The New Black Aesthetic:Eurocentric Metafiction and African Americentric Tropes of Transcultural Identity and Community(1983-2001) 301

CHARLES[RICHARD]JOHNSON(1948-) 305

NATHANIEL[ERNEST]MACKEY(1947-) 311

TREY ELLIS[WILLIAM ARTHUR ELLIS III](1962-) 316

PERCIVAL L[EONARD]EVERETT(1956-) 323

COLSON WHITEHEAD(1969-) 328

8 Contemporary African American Paraliterature:Science/Speculative Fiction,Gay/Lesbian,and Detective/Mystery Novels and Romances(1983-2001) 333

Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Novels 335

SAMUEL[RAY]DELANY [JR.](1942-) 337

OCTAVIA[ESTELLE] BUTLER(1947-) 343

Gay/LesbianNovelsandRomances 349

LARRY DUPLECHAN(1956-) 355

E[VERETTE]LYNN HARRIS(1957-) 358

Detective/Mystery Novels 366

BARBARA NEELY(1941-) 369

WALTER[ELLIS]MOSLEY(1952-) 375

Conclusion 383

Notes 389

Selected Bibliography 429

Index 463