African American Literature in Transition - Series page

pp ii-ii

African American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990 - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

Notes on Contributors

pp vii-xii

Preface

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-10

Part I - The Expanding Canon

pp 11-118

1 - Those Dazzling African American Women Writers of the 1980s

pp 17-35

2 - Innovations and Institutions in African American Poetry of the 1980s

pp 36-55

3 - Wideman’s Family Stories and the Carceral Archipelago

pp 56-76

4 - A Queer Reckoning for Black Masculinity

pp 77-98

5 - August Wilson’s Time and History’s Black Bottom

pp 99-118

Part II - New Directions/New Literary Forms

pp 119-182

6 - The Trey Ellis 1980s and the Discovery of an Artistic School

pp 123-138

7 - Hip-Hop in Transition

pp 139-159

8 - Reframing and Reappropriating Blackness in 1980s Satire

pp 160-182

Part III - Global Connections

pp 183-256

9 - Decolonial Poetics and Queer Resistance in Anglophone Afro-Caribbean Women’s Literature

pp 187-211

10 - Transnational Visions of Black Women Writing

pp 212-234

11 - Ruination and a Dramaturgical Reading of Jamaican Women’s Transnational Literature in 1980s North America

pp 235-256

Index

pp 257-260