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Through a series of essays that explore the forms, themes, genres, historical contexts, major authors, and latest critical approaches, A Companion to African American Literature presents a comprehensive chronological overview of African American literature from the eighteenth century to the modern day Examines African American literature from its earliest origins, through the rise of antislavery literature in the decades leading into the Civil War, to the modern development of contemporary African American cultural media, literary aesthetics, and political ideologies Addresses the latest critical and scholarly approaches to African American literature Features essays by leading established literary scholars as well as newer voices Content: Chapter 1 Back to the Future: Eighteenth?Century Transatlantic Black Authors (pages 9–24): Vincent CarrettaChapter 2 Africa in Early African American Literature (pages 25–44): James SidburyChapter 3 Ports of Call, Pulpits of Consultation: Rethinking the Origins of African American Literature (pages 45–58): Frances Smith Foster and Kim D. GreenChapter 4 The Constitution of Toussaint: Another Origin of African American Literature (pages 59–74): Michael J. Drexler and Ed WhiteChapter 5 Religion in Early African American Literature (pages 75–89): Joanna Brooks and Tyler MabryChapter 6 The Economies of the Slave Narrative (pages 90–102): Philip GouldChapter 7 The 1850s: The First Renaissance of Black Letters (pages 103–118): Maurice S. LeeChapter 8 African American Literary Nationalism (pages 119–132): Robert S. LevineChapter 9 Periodicals, Print Culture, and African American Poetry (pages 133–148): Ivy G. WilsonChapter 10 Racial Uplift and the Literature of the New Negro (pages 149–168): Marlon B. RossChapter 11 The Dialect of New Negro Literature (pages 169–184): Gene Andrew JarrettChapter 12 African American Literary Realism, 1865–1914 (pages 185–199): Andrea N. WilliamsChapter 13 Folklore and African American Literature in the Post?Reconstruction Era (pages 200–211): Shirley Moody?TurnerChapter 14 The Harlem Renaissance: The New Negro at Home and Abroad (pages 212–226): Michelle Ann StephensChapter 15 Transatlantic Collaborations: Visual Culture in African American Literature (pages 227–242): Cherene Sherrard?JohnsonChapter 16 Aesthetic Hygiene: Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Work of Art (pages 243–253): Mark Christian ThompsonChapter 17 African American Modernism and State Surveillance (pages 254–268): William J. MaxwellChapter 18 The Chicago Renaissance (pages 269–285): Michelle Yvonne GordonChapter 19 Jazz and African American Literature (pages 286–301): Keith D. LeonardChapter 20 The Black Arts Movement (pages 302–314): James Edward SmethurstChapter 21 Humor in African American Literature (pages 315–331): Glenda R. CarpioChapter 22 Neo?Slave Narratives (pages 332–346): Madhu DubeyChapter 23 Popular Black Women's Fiction and the Novels of Terry McMillan (pages 347–359): Robin V. SmilesChapter 24 African American Science Fiction (pages 360–375): Jeffrey Allen TuckerChapter 25 Latino/a Literature and the African Diaspora (pages 376–392): Theresa DelgadilloChapter 26 African American Literature and Queer Studies: The Conundrum of James Baldwin (pages 393–409): Guy Mark FosterChapter 27 African American Literature and Psychoanalysis (pages 410–420): Arlene R. Keizer