TY - BOOK AU - Williams,Dana A. ED - Project Muse. TI - Contemporary African American Fiction: New Critical Essays SN - 9780814271681 AV - PS153.N5 C643 2009 U1 - 813/.5409896073 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Columbus PB - The Ohio State University Press KW - African Americans in literature KW - African Americans KW - Intellectual life KW - 20th century KW - American fiction KW - History and criticism KW - African American authors KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction / Dana A. Williams -- Theoretical influences and experimental resemblances: Ernest J. Gaines and recent critical approaches to the study of African American fiction / Reggie Scott Young -- Ideological tension: cultural nationalism and multiculturalism in the novels of Ishmael Reed / Jennifer A. Jordan -- The politics of addiction and adaptation: dis/ease transmission in Octavia E. Butler's Survivor and fledgling / Mildred R. Mickle -- "When the women tell stories": healing in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory / Tara T. Green -- The coming-of-age of the contemporary African American novel: Olympia Vernon's Eden, Logic, and, A killing in this town / Dana A. Williams -- Another night, another story: the frame narrative in Toni Morrison's Paradise and Alf Laylah wa Laylah [The Arabian nights] / Majda R. Atieh -- A stranger on the bus: Reginald McKnight's I get on the bus as complex journey / Sandra Y. Govan -- Re-imagining the academy: story and pedagogy in contemporary African American fiction / Eleanor W. Traylor UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/27802/ ER -