The African American Novel in the Early Twenty-First Century

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-71072-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 602 g

Reihe: European Perspectives on the United States

The African American Novel in the Early Twenty-First Century comprises fourteen essays, each focussing on recent, widely known fiction by acclaimed African American authors. This volume showcases the originality, diversity, and vitality of contemporary African American literature, which has reached a bewildering yet exhilarating stage of disruption and continuity between today and yesterday, homegrown and diasporic identities, and local and global interrelatedness. Additionally, it delves into the complexity of the Black literary imagination and its interaction with broader cultural contexts. Lastly, it reflects on the evolution of the African American community, its tribulations, triumphs, challenges, and prospects.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Pochmara, Anna

Lambert, Raphaël

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 At the Crossroads of Continuity and Disruption: Exploring the Contemporary African American Novel

Raphaël Lambert and Anna Pochmara

2 Creative Practices of Resistance in Contemporary Narratives of Slavery of the Twenty-First Century

Luana de Souza Sutter

3 Agency and Property in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad

Raphaël Lambert

4 Remembering Generations in Homegoing: Rewriting Roots for the Twenty-First Century

Miguel Sanz Jiménez

5 Ifemelu’s Online Linguistic and Identity Performances in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah

Dorottya Mozes

6 The New African Diaspora and Afropolitanism in the Work of Taiye Selasi

Elisa Bordin

7 Exposure in Teju Cole’s Photography and Fiction

Nicholas Gamso

8 “How Does it Feel to Be Free of One’s Illusions?”: Erasure and the Anti-Essentialist Ethos of Percival Everett

Kamil Chrzczonowicz

9 From Freedom to Struggle: Colson Whitehead’s Apex Hides the Hurt as a Denouncement of Surface Fetishism

Miroslaw Aleksander Miernik

10 Voluntary Slavery and Omnipresent Black Fathers: The Thirdspace of Blackness in Paul Beatty’s The Sellout

Anna Pochmara

11 Modes of Change in the Africanfuturism of Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death

Brian Willems

12 Afrofuturist Alternate History in the Post-Race Era: Justina Ireland’s Dread Nation

Julia Lindsay

13 Same As It Ever Was: Dehumanizing the American Cityscape in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One

Jamie Brummer

14 “This Is a Place for the Dead”: Reading the Child Ghost in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing

Lucy Arnold

15 “Hey, Celestial”: Loving Girls and Aging in Toni Morrison’s Love

Mar Gallego

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anna Pochmara is Associate Professor at the University of Warsaw. She authored The Making of the New Negro (UAP, 2011) and The Nadir and the Zenith: Temperance and Excess in the Early African American Novel (UGAP, 2021).

Raphaël Lambert is a Professor of African American studies at Kansai University in Osaka, Japan. He is the author of Narrating the Slave Trade, Theorizing Community (Brill, 2019) and Black Hopes/Black Woes: Early African American Optimism and Twenty-first Century Afro-pessimism (Routledge, forthcoming).