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The book examines fictional responses of African American expatriate writers to Europe in the 1960s. It analyzes the change in the African American perception of Europe and seeks to reveal how African American writers of the 1960s responded in imaginative ways to the European scene.

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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 and criticism.

African Americans - Intellectual life - 20th century - Handbooks, manuals, etc. --- American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism - Handbooks, manuals, etc. --- American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism - Handbooks, manuals, etc. --- American fiction --- African Americans --- African Americans in literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- African American authors --- History and criticism --- Intellectual life --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- American literature --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Handbooks, manuals, etc. --- 20th century --- Black people --- LITTERATURE AMERICAINE --- Fiction américaine --- NOIRS AMERICAINS --- NOIRS DANS LA LITTERATURE --- AUTEURS NOIRS --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- MANUELS --- 20e siècle --- Histoire et critique --- VIE INTELLECTUELLE --- 20E SIECLE

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Invisible Darkness offers a striking interpretation of the tortured lives of the two major novelists of the Harlem Renaissance: Jean Toomer, author of Cane (1923), and Nella Larsen, author of Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929). Charles R. Larson examines the common belief that both writers ""disappeared"" after the Harlem Renaissance and died in obscurity; he dispels the misconception that they vanished into the white world and lived unproductive and unrewarding lives.In clear, jargon-free language, Larson demonstrates the opposing views that

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