A Companion to African American Literature (PDF)

Notes on Contributors. Introduction (Gene Andrew Jarrett, Boston University). Part I: The Literatures of Africa, Middle Passage, Slavery, and Freedom: The Early and Antebellum Periods, c.1750-1865. 1. Back to the Future: Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Black Authors (Vincent Carretta, University of Maryland). 2. Africa in Early African American Literature (James Sidbury, University of Texas at Austin). 3. Ports of Call, Pulpits of Consultation: Rethinking the Origins of African American Literature (Frances Smith Foster, Emory University; Kim D. Green, Emory University) . 4. The Constitution of Toussaint: Another Origin of African American Literature (Michael J. Drexler, Bucknell University; Ed White, University of Florida). 5. Religion in Early African American Literature (Joanna Brooks, San Diego State University; Tyler Mabry, University of Texas at Austin). 6. The Economies of the Slave Narrative (Philip Gould, Brown University). 7. The 1850s: The First Renaissance of Black Letters (Maurice S. Lee, Boston University). 8. African American Literary Nationalism (Robert S. Levine, University of Maryland). 9. Periodicals, Print Culture, and African American Poetry (Ivy G. Wilson, Northwestern University). Part II: New Negro Aesthetics, Culture, and Politics: The Modern Period, 1865-c.1940. 10. Racial Uplift and the Literature of the New Negro (Marlon B. Ross, University of Virginia). 11. The Dialect of New Negro Literature (Gene Andrew Jarrett, Boston University). 12. African American Literary Realism, 1865-1914 (Andreá N. Williams, Ohio State University). 13. Folklore and African American Literature in the Post-Reconstruction Era (Shirley Moody Turner, Penn State University). 14. The Harlem Renaissance: The New Negro at Home and Abroad (Michelle Ann Stephens, Colgate University). 15. Transatlantic Collaborations: Visual Culture in African American Literature (Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison). 16. Aesthetic Hygiene: Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. Du

Gene Andrew Jarrett is Professor and Chair of the
Department of English at Boston University. He is the author
of Representing the Race: A New Political History of African
American Literature (2011) and Deans and Truants: Race and
Realism in African American Literature (2007), and the editor
or co-editor of several volumes and collections of African American
literature and literary criticism.

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