TY - BOOK ID - 2978085 TI - The Columbia guide to contemporary African American fiction PY - 2005 VL - *2 SN - 0231124724 0231510691 9780231510691 9780231124720 0231135602 PB - New York Columbia University Press DB - UniCat KW - African Americans - Intellectual life - 20th century - Handbooks, manuals, etc. KW - American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism - Handbooks, manuals, etc. KW - American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism - Handbooks, manuals, etc. KW - American fiction KW - African Americans KW - African Americans in literature KW - English KW - Languages & Literatures KW - American Literature KW - African American authors KW - History and criticism KW - Intellectual life KW - Afro-Americans in literature KW - Negroes in literature KW - Afro-Americans KW - Black Americans KW - Colored people (United States) KW - Negroes KW - American literature KW - Africans KW - Ethnology KW - Blacks KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc. KW - 20th century KW - Black people KW - LITTERATURE AMERICAINE KW - Fiction américaine KW - NOIRS AMERICAINS KW - NOIRS DANS LA LITTERATURE KW - AUTEURS NOIRS KW - HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE KW - MANUELS KW - 20e siècle KW - Histoire et critique KW - VIE INTELLECTUELLE KW - 20E SIECLE UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2978085 AB - From Ishmael Reed and Toni Morrison to Colson Whitehead and Terry McMillan, Darryl Dickson-Carr offers a definitive guide to contemporary African American literature. This volume-the only reference work devoted exclusively to African American fiction of the last thirty-five years-presents a wealth of factual and interpretive information about the major authors, texts, movements, and ideas that have shaped contemporary African American fiction. In more than 160 concise entries, arranged alphabetically, Dickson-Carr discusses the careers, works, and critical receptions of Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Jamaica Kincaid, Charles Johnson, John Edgar Wideman, Leon Forrest, as well as other prominent and lesser-known authors. Each entry presents ways of reading the author's works, identifies key themes and influences, assesses the writer's overarching significance, and includes sources for further research.Dickson-Carr addresses the influence of a variety of literary movements, critical theories, and publishers of African American work. Topics discussed include the Black Arts Movement, African American postmodernism, feminism, and the influence of hip-hop, the blues, and jazz on African American novelists. In tracing these developments, Dickson-Carr examines the multitude of ways authors have portrayed the diverse experiences of African Americans."The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction" situates African American fiction in the social, political, and cultural contexts of post-Civil Rights era America: the drug epidemics of the 1980s and 1990s and the concomitant "war on drugs," the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, the struggle for gay rights, feminism, the rise of HIV/AIDS, and racism's continuing effects on African American communities. Dickson-Carr also discusses the debates and controversies regarding the role of literature in African American life. The volume concludes with an extensive annotated bibliography of African American fiction an ER -