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Stulov, Yuri V. "Contemporary African American Historical Novel." Literature of the Americas, no. 14 (2023): 75–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2541-7894-2023-14-75-99.

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The paper discusses the works of African American writers of the end of the 1960s — the end of the 2010s that address the historical past of African Americans and explores the traumatic experience of slavery and its consequences. The tragedy of people subjected to slavery as well as their masters who challenged the moral and ethical norms has remained the topical issue of contemporary African American historical novel. Pivotal for the development of the genre of African American historical novel were Jubilee by the outstanding writer and poet Margaret Walker and the non-fiction novel Roots by

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Roelofse-Campbell, Z. "Enlightened state versus millenarian vision: A comparison between two historical novels." Literator 18, no. 1 (1997): 83–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v18i1.531.

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Two millenarian events, one in Brazil (Canudos Rebellion, 1897) and the other in South Africa (Bulhoek Massacre, 1921) have inspired two works of narrative fiction: Mario Vargas Llosa's The War of the End of the World (1981) and Mike Nicol’s This Day and Age (1992). In both novels the events are presented from the perspectives of both the oppressed landless peasants and the oppressors, who were the ruling élites. In both instances, governments which purported to be models of enlightenment and modernity resorted to violence and repression in order to uphold their authority. Vargas Llosa's novel

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Docherty, Michael. "Then, Now, Later, Always." American Literary History 37, no. 1 (2025): 185–95. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajae132.

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Abstract Considered here are two recent monographs and an essay collection that constitute evidence of a contemporary boom in both historical fiction and critical consideration thereof. In response to Alexander Manshel’s Writing Backwards, Alexandra Lawrie’s Writing the Past in Twenty-First Century American Fiction, and Historical Fiction Now, edited by Mark Eaton and Bruce Holsinger, this essay mediates between competing definitions of the historical and the contemporary proffered by the three works examined, before taking up Manshel’s argument that the ascendancy of historical fiction and th

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AFILAL, Malika. "Re-Writing Her Story: Identity in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Assia Djebar's Fantasia between the Interplay of Historical Legacy and Textual Representation." International Journal of Language and Literary Studies 7, no. 2 (2025): 238–59. https://doi.org/10.36892/ijlls.v7i2.2056.

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The present paper discusses how Assia Djebar's Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade and Toni Morrison's Beloved make testimony to historical truth in their representation of feminine identity in two historical contexts: colonialism in Algeria and Racism in America. In the postmodern, postcolonial novels, the African American Morrison and the Algerian Francophone Djebar rewrite two phases of human history, aiming to form, transmit and represent a true historical reality and consciousness through blurring fact and fiction. Djebar revisits the official history of colonialism and the Algerian War of de

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Lawend Ikram Mohammed. "The Role of Ghosts in August Wilson’s the Piano Lesson." Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences 28, no. 6 (2024): 334–42. https://doi.org/10.21271/zjhs.28.6.18.

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This study explores the role of ghosts in August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, concentrating on how these supernatural elements symbolize the traumatic legacy of slavery and reflect African American heritage. The main problem indicated is the symbolic function of ghosts in the play and their connection to the African American experience, notably in how they represent the ongoing consequence of slavery on familial and cultural identity. Utilizing the close reading approach, the analysis examines the text through the lens of Gothic fiction and African American folklore, unfolding the ghosts as symb

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Łobodziec, Agnieszka. "Intersections of African-American Womanist Literary Approaches and Paradigms of Ethical Literary Criticism." Interlitteraria 22, no. 2 (2018): 297. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/il.2017.22.2.8.

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Although black American womanist literary perspectives and ethical literary criticism theory emerged from different socio-cultural contexts, a number of intersections between the two can be discerned. One of the objectives of this paper is to analyze the reasons for which some Chinese scholars and African-American women literary theoreticians are skeptical of mainstream Western literary criticism schools, which they view as insufficient for exploring works of literature derived from fusions of non-Western and Western cultural contexts. Secondly, the paper elucidates the particular value system

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Schneiderman, Leo. "Toni Morrison: Mothers and Daughters." Imagination, Cognition and Personality 14, no. 4 (1995): 273–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/wb6p-hcbn-03yy-lpbr.

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The present article analyzes Morrison's novels with emphasis on the conflicted emotions of fictional African-American mothers in relation to their children. Of special interest is Morrison's depiction of the mother's role in shaping the individuation process of her daughters in a matriarchal, father-absent context. Also examined is Morrison's treatment of intergenerational continuity and the unique role of the grandmother against a background of social change. Such change is interpreted by Morrison as involving conflict between the norms of traditional, rural, folkloric black culture, and the

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Troike, R. C. "CREOLE /l/ -> /r/ IN AFRICAN AMERICAN ENGLISH/GULLAH: HISTORICAL FACT AND FICTION." American Speech 90, no. 1 (2015): 6–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00031283-2914692.

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Haddox, Thomas F. (Thomas Fredrick). "Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone and the Ludic in African American Historical Fiction." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 53, no. 1 (2007): 120–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2007.0025.

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Klestil, Matthias. "Blackness and the Anthropocene Sublime in Jesmyn Ward’s Fiction." Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 16, no. 1 (2025): 37–55. https://doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2025.16.1.5571.

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This article focuses on the potentials of African American literature to analyze and rethink interlinkages of race, the sublime, and the Anthropocene. Specifically, it discusses two of Jesmyn Ward’s novels, Salvage the Bones (2011) and Let Us Descend (2023), through a focus on Blackness and the notion of the Anthropocene sublime. My readings show that Ward mobilizes traditions of the sublime through an African American environmental perspective, thus highlighting the racial dimensions of the Anthropocene sublime and often suggesting alternative forms of thinking about the human. After introduc

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Barter, Faith. "Encrypted Citations: The Bondwoman’s Narrative and the Case of Jane Johnson." MELUS 46, no. 1 (2021): 51–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlab002.

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Abstract I read Hannah Crafts’s The Bondwoman’s Narrative (2002) and its legal historical intertexts in order to nuance “fiction” as a literary category of antebellum African American writing. Specifically, I develop connections between The Bondwoman’s Narrative and US laws of slavery by thinking about the novel’s form in relation to legal citational practices. I argue that the novel encrypts and encodes legal narratives within its fictionalized accounts of verifiable “historical” events. By close reading Crafts’s alterations of such events, I compare her use of encryption to the citational pr

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Aquino, Rosilene Cássia Freitas de. "Excavating the Past: Rememories and Healing in Toni Morrison’s Beloved." Em Tese 10 (December 31, 2012): 196. http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/1982-0739.10.0.196-201.

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This essay discusses the possibility of the combination of the social with the aesthetic functions of African American literature. It analyses how the main characters of Morrison’s Beloved are portrayed not just as individual and fictional types, but also as collective and historical ones, through which African American historical memory and culture are revealed in slavery time.

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Aquino, Rosilene Cássia Freitas de. "Excavating the Past." Em Tese 10 (December 31, 2012): 196–201. https://doi.org/10.17851/1982-0739.10..196-201.

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This essay discusses the possibility of the combination of the social with the aesthetic functions of African American literature. It analyses how the main characters of Morrison’s Beloved are portrayed not just as individual and fictional types, but also as collective and historical ones, through which African American historical memory and culture are revealed in slavery time.

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Terry, Jennifer. "Buried perspectives." Power and Narrative 17, no. 1 (2007): 93–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.17.1.08ter.

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In examining representations of engagements with the North American landscape in the fiction of Toni Morrison, this article seeks to explore the author’s revision of dominant discourses about the topography and symbolic spaces of the continent and her exposure thereby of historical structures of power. Focusing on her fourth novel, Song of Solomon (1977), it traces how Morrison attempts to give voice to African American experience and identity and to revisit and contest familiar stories of national belonging and being in the land. In crafting tales of black displacement, dispossession, estrang

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Ogunyemi, Folabomi L. "Trauma and Empowerment in Tina McElroy Ansa’s Ugly Ways." Journal of Black Studies 52, no. 3 (2021): 331–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021934720986424.

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Ugly Ways (1993) by Tina McElroy Ansa has been overlooked as a significant contribution to African American feminist literary fiction. This paper performs a close reading examining the novel’s thematic intersection of Black feminist theory and trauma theory. Part one of this essay defines Black feminist theory and outlines key concepts of Black feminist thought. Parts two and three focus on the protagonist, Esther “Mudear” Lovejoy, and analyze her “change” through the lenses of Black feminist theory and trauma theory, respectively, highlighting the ways in which Ugly Ways articulates a concept

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Donawerth, Jane. "Body Parts: Twentieth-Century Science Fiction Short Stories by Women." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 119, no. 3 (2004): 474–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/003081204x20532.

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This essay is a feminist, historical exploration of body parts in short science fiction stories by women. In early-twentieth-century stories about prostheses, blood transfusion, and radioactive experiments, Clare Winger Harris, Kathleen Ludwick, and Judith Merril use body parts to explore fears of damage to masculine identity by war, of alienation of men from women, and of racial pollution. In stories from the last quarter of the twentieth century, the South American author Angélica Gorodischer depicts a housewife's escape from oppressive domestic technology through time travel in which she mu

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Troy, Maria Holmgren. "Body Horror in Octavia E. Butler’s Clay’s Ark." Humanities 12, no. 5 (2023): 120. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h12050120.

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African American science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler’s works have attracted a great deal of academic interest since the 1990s onwards. Clay’s Ark (1984), however, has not gained as much scholarly attention as some of her other novels, and the centrality of Gothic aspects, in particular those related to body horror, has not been addressed. By focusing on how these aspects inform the structure, setting, and characters’ actions and relationships in this novel about an extraterrestrial infection that threatens and changes humanity, this article demonstrates how Butler employs and adapts strat

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Massood, Paula J. "To the Past and Beyond: African American History Films in Dialogue with the Present." Film Quarterly 71, no. 2 (2017): 19–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fq.2017.71.2.19.

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Over the last decade a number of historical dramas, including Selma (Ava DuVernay, 2014), Twelve Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013), and The Birth of a Nation (Nate Parker, 2016), have been the recipients of numerous accolades, screening at festivals and winning prestigious awards. The films are linked by a focus on the past, particularly the antebellum and Civil Rights eras, and a shared commitment to providing historical narratives from African American perspectives. In many ways, they continue in the tradition of the slave narrative/abolitionist melodrama, with Twelve Years a Slave perhaps

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Brioua, Nadira. "Postcolonialism, Islamophobia and Inserting Islam Facts in African-American Fiction: Umm Zakiyyah’s If I Should Speak." Al Hikmah International Journal of Islamic Studies and Human Sciences 4, Special Issue (2021): 1–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.46722/hkmh.4.si.21a.

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Islam has been growing quickly in the world, yet it is a predominately misunderstood religion. Othering Islam through media propaganda and western writings, and mis associating it with some assumptions are still rampant. Thus, the researcher attempts at showing these assumptions stereotypical prejudgments of Islam and Muslims that are commonly associated with Western assumptions resulted in Islamophobia and exploring the role of counter-discourses in contemporary Black-American Fiction by analyzing Umm Zakiyyah’s If I Should Speak and showing to what extents the novel has an important role in

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Selay Marius, KOUASSI. "‘‘They could defecate over a whole people […] and defecate some more by tearing up the land”: Ecological (Un) consciousness and Resistance in Toni Morrison’s Selected Novels." International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Invention 5, no. 12 (2018): 5207–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.18535/ijsshi/v5i12.19.

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This paper aims to deconstruct Toni Morrison’s selected novels through the lenses of ecocriticism. It looks at her work from an ecocritical angle. Sula has traditionally been read as a story about female friendship ;Song of Solomon has been critically acclaimed for its vivid capture of African American cultural heritage ; Tar Baby is regarded as a masterpiece because of its high folkloric resonance ; Beloved is perceived as a survey of the horrors of slavery ; Paradise is regarded as the narrative of contemporary communities confronted with great social changes, while A Mercy is considered to

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Gehlawat, Monika. "Strangers in the Village." James Baldwin Review 5, no. 1 (2019): 48–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/jbr.5.4.

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This essay uses Edward Said’s theory of affiliation to consider the relationship between James Baldwin and contemporary artists Teju Cole and Glenn Ligon, both of whom explicitly engage with their predecessor’s writing in their own work. Specifically, Baldwin’s essay “Stranger in the Village” (1953) serves a through-line for this discussion, as it is invoked in Cole’s essay “Black Body” and Ligon’s visual series, also titled Stranger in the Village. In juxtaposing these three artists, I argue that they express the dialectical energy of affiliation by articulating ongoing concerns of race relat

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Tompkins, Adam. "Acts of Becoming." Loading 14, no. 24 (2022): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1084836ar.

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This article examines the rich historical subtext in the future-focused storylines of Quantic Dream’s 2018 release Detroit: Become Human (PS4) and illuminates many of the thematic continuities in racial issues between the past and the future. Much of the subtle historical symbolism appears to have went unnoticed by many reviewers who maligned the videogame and its creator David Cage for relying on lazy tropes that clunkily connect the African American civil rights movement to the narrative of woke androids engaging in a struggle for greater equality in society. Following scholarship that has e

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Shevchenko, Arina R. "The Representation of Racial and Ethnic Conflict in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Americanah”." Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices 19, no. 3 (2022): 481–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2618-897x-2022-19-3-481-490.

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The relevance of the research undertaken is connected with the current tendency of multiculturalism in fiction, which has been developing and transforming with the appearance of new writers, to be non-static. Many contemporary authors have already become impossible to be correlated with a specific national literature since they have had the experience of living in more than one country and have been the bearers of several cultural codes due to their encounter with diverse mentalities as well as the formation of their own identity in the situation of cultural interaction. Ipso facto, it is poss

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Munos, Delphine. "Afrasian Entanglements and Generic Ambiguities in Sultan Somjee’s Bead Bai." Matatu 52, no. 1 (2021): 188–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-05201012.

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Abstract This article looks at Sultan Somjee’s Bead Bai (2012) which focuses on Sakina, a member of the Satpanth Ismaili community living in mid-twentieth century Kenya. Based on nine years of research and interviews with Khoja women who now reside in Western Europe and North America, Bead Bai is generally described as a “historical novel” or an “ethnographic fiction,” yet it also can be thought of as pertaining to the genre of what Brett Smith et al. (2015) call “ethnographic creative nonfiction.” I discuss the ways in which the ‘genre-bending’ aspects of Bead Bai participate in retracing the

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FAREBROTHER, RACHEL. "The Lesson Which India Is Today Teaching the World: Nationalism and Internationalism inThe Crisis, 1910–1934." Journal of American Studies 46, no. 3 (2012): 603–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875811001319.

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This article aims to test the limits of current assessments of the New Negro renaissance, which tend to emphasize either its investment in cultural nationalism or its Pan-African focus, by exploring the international contours ofThe Crisisunder Du Bois’s editorship. Recent analysis ofThe Crisishas paid considerable attention to the productive juxtaposition of what Anne Carroll has termed “protest and affirmation,” whereby Du Bois positioned reports on racial violence next to accounts of African American achievements in order to prompt acknowledgement of the realities of racism. But such critici

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Gillespie, Michael Boyce. "Thinking about Watchmen: with Jonathan W. Gray, Rebecca A. Wanzo, and Kristen J. Warner." Film Quarterly 73, no. 4 (2020): 50–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fq.2020.73.4.50.

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Michael Boyce Gillespie leads a roundtable with scholars Jonathan W. Gray, Rebecca A. Wanzo, and Kristen Warner to discuss issues of medium, genre, fandom, and African American history in the highly regarded HBO series Watchmen. Characterizing the HBO series as a disobedient adaptation that modifies, extends, and redirects the world making of its source material—the famed twelve-issue comic-book series of the same name, written by Alan Moore and drawn by Dave Gibbons (1986–87)—Gillespie et al. explore the ways in which Watchmen remediates American history, starting with the Tulsa Race Massacre

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Martirosian, Georgii Eduardovich. "Artistic Representation of the Past in Afrofuturist Novels from Nigeria and the United States." Litera, no. 5 (May 2025): 14–24. https://doi.org/10.25136/2409-8698.2025.5.74309.

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This study focuses on the artistic strategies of representing historical past in two Afrofuturist novels: «Kindred» by Octavia Butler and «War Girls» by Tochi Onyebuchi. The author examines how these texts, rooted in distinct geographical and cultural contexts—African American and Nigerian—conceptualize the past as a constituent of collective memory, historical trauma, and cultural identity. Special attention is paid to the integration of the past into the structure of speculative fiction, its narrative functions, and its role in shaping future imaginaries. The comparison of the two novels rev

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Hu, Jing, Manimangai Mani, and Hardev Kaur. "The Otherness in Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s Take My Hand." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 14, no. 11 (2024): 3654–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1411.35.

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In her recent historical fiction, Take My Hand (2022), New York Times bestselling author Dolen Perkins-Valdez explores the specific manifestations of post-slavery racism, particularly institutional racism. This is vividly portrayed through the experiences of Civil Townsend, a determined new nurse, who witnesses the systematic denial of reproductive rights and autonomy among impoverished African American females. Due to the novel being published within the last two years, there is a significant lack of extensive scholarly analysis on its critical themes. This research employs the postcolonial c

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Broyld, Dann J. "The Underground Railroad As Afrofuturism: Enslaved Blacks Who Imagined A Future And Used Technology To Reach The “Outer Spaces of Slavery”." Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies 6, no. 3 (2019): 171. http://dx.doi.org/10.29333/ejecs/301.

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This article employs the lens of Afrofuturism to address the Underground Railroad, detailing what imagination, tact, and technology, it took for fugitive Blacks to flee to the “outer spaces of slavery.” Black enslavement was as terrifying as any exotic fictional tale, but it happened to real humans alienated in the “peculiar institution.” Escaping slavery brought dreams to life, and at times must have felt like “magical realism,” or an out-of-body experience, and the American North, Canada, Mexico, Africa, Europe, and free Caribbean islands were otherworldly and science fiction-like, in contra

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Brioua, Nadira. "Postcolonialism, Islamophobia and Inserting Islam Facts in African-American Fiction: Umm Zakiyyah’s If I Should Speak." AL-HIKMAH: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ISLAMIC STUDIES AND HUMAN SCIENCES 4 (June 28, 2021): 1–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.46722/hikmah.v4i.124.

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Islam has been growing quickly in the world, yet it is a predominately misunderstood religion. Othering Islam through media propaganda and western writings, and mis associating it with some assumptions are still rampant. Thus, the researcher attempts at showing these assumptions stereotypical prejudgments of Islam and Muslims that are commonly associated with Western assumptions resulted in Islamophobia and exploring the role of counter-discourses in contemporary Black-American Fiction by analyzing Umm Zakiyyah’s If I Should Speak and showing to what extents the novel has an important role in

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Gondor-Wiercioch, Agnieszka. "Pociąg do przyszłości – lekcja historii z Colsonem Whiteheadem." Przegląd Kulturoznawczy, no. 3 (49) (2021): 496–510. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20843860pk.21.034.14354.

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Train to the Future – History Lesson with Colson Whitehead In my article I am going to focus on the innovating way in which Colson Whitehead presents African-American history in his novel The Underground Railroad. Similarly, to the classical texts exposing erased and buried histories in the U.S. such as written by William Faulkner and Toni Morrison, Whitehead proposes a history lesson for Americans and non-Americans, but instead of producing another historical reconstruction, he uses the technique of multisynchronism combining the past, present and future that constantly interplay in his narra

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Garibaldi, Korey. "Irish Heritage in the Literary Remains of Frank Yerby and Henry James." MELUS 44, no. 4 (2019): 122–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlz038.

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Abstract This essay investigates how Irish heritage—during the long historical epoch of British colonization—figured into the literary works of Frank Yerby and Henry James. Autobiographical connections and literary affinities between these authors are illuminated and contextualized by, among other published sources, the posthumous collection of essays by the latter novelist’s father, The Literary Remains of the late Henry James (1884). While scholars are newly investigating intersections between Henry James’s oeuvre and African American literature, Yerby’s enormously popular fiction has remain

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Rediker, Marcus. "The African Origins of the Amistad Rebellion, 1839." International Review of Social History 58, S21 (2013): 15–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859013000242.

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AbstractThis essay explores the Amistad rebellion of 1839, in which fifty-three Africans seized a slave schooner, sailed it to Long Island, New York, made an alliance with American abolitionists, and won their freedom in a protracted legal battle. Asking how and why the rebels succeeded, it emphasizes the African background and experience, as well as the “fictive kinship” that grew out of many incarcerations, as sources of solidarity that made the uprising possible. The essay concludes by discussing the process of mutiny, suggesting a six-phase model for understanding the dynamics of shipboard

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Cernat, Laura. ""The Tangled Skein of Connections": Slavery Escape Routes from Individuality to Intersectionality in Biofiction and Speculative Historical Fiction." African American Review 56, no. 4 (2023): 371–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/afa.2023.a931868.

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Abstract: This article analyzes Colum McCann's biofiction TransAtlantic (2013), which it reads alongside Colson Whitehead's speculative historical fiction The Underground Railroad (2016) in order to bring into sharp focus the kind of cultural, political, and intellectual service that biofiction by or about African Americans can perform. By lifting the veil from the mechanisms of oppressive power, these two novels expose common structures that were operational during the slave trade in Africa as well as the "starve trade" in Ireland. My main conceptual building block is Ian Baucom's model of tw

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Kelting, Lily. "Between Nostalgia and History in the US South: Fictions of the Black Waiter on Film." Paragrana 25, no. 2 (2016): 162–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/para-2016-0036.

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AbstractIn this essay, I examine frictions between the past, present and future which, in the tension between them, generate fictions which conflate not only Southern nostalgia with history but undergird American exceptionalism more broadly. These fictions generated by the rubbing together of past and present are not only nostalgic for a past that never existed but actively anti-historical, supplanting discrete periods in the history of the U.S. South (such as slavery, the Jim Crow Era, and the present day) with an intentionally confounded “temporal estrangement”. To trace the fault-lines at w

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Ananya, Saha. "The Witch and the Uhamiri: Exploring Nuances of Female Bonding in A Mercy and Efuru." Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies 26 (March 30, 2018): 13–22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2539215.

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For Toni Morrison, the demise of an ancestor translates into the termination of existence for oneself, as she claims in an NPR 2008 interview. In her work, <em>A Mercy </em>(2008), Morrison embarks upon a journey towards ethnic history, hearkening back to a temporal past and its ambiguous framing of one's relation with identity, culture and the interpersonal; unlike her other works wherein she explores relatively recent contexts of the African-American predicament. Synchronous with her fascination regarding ethnocentric roots and historical fiction, this paper comparatively explo

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Fox, Regis M. "On the Limits of "Playing Crazy": Madness and Motherhood in Toni Morrison's Beloved." College Literature 52, no. 1 (2025): 78–106. https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.2025.a950000.

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Abstract: This essay contributes to scholarship on twentieth-century African American literature which thematizes Black women's madness. In interrogating antebellum Black madness as at once threatening and emancipatory, I undermine marginalization of the "mad Black woman" and the associated occlusions she represents, necessarily expanding the interpretive frameworks by which we most commonly account for Black women's political consciousness. One such mode of consciousness—"playing crazy"—entails a bevy of activities and behaviors discharged by historically disempowered groups to alter, even if

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Smyth, J. E. "Against the Beat." Film Quarterly 67, no. 1 (2013): 7–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fq.2013.67.1.7.

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The opening sequence of Ragtime (1981) takes place in a theater during the silent film era where the protagonist, Coalhouse Walker Jr. (Howard Rollins, Jr.), accompanies a newsreel featuring the stars of American public life in the early decades of the twentieth century. While postmodern theorists and film historians have linked the content and form of textual and visual fictions with their historical counterparts, less attention has been given to musical and aural styles as historiographic interventions. And while new research in historical film studies has revealed the flirtations of mainstr

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CROWNSHAW, RICHARD. "Agency and Environment in the Work of Jesmyn Ward Response to Anna Hartnell, “When Cars Become Churches”." Journal of American Studies 50, no. 1 (2015): 225–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875815001887.

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Throughout this interview, Jesmyn Ward emphasizes the humanity of her fictional and nonfictional subjects – subjects whose humanity has been eviscerated by what has been characterized as the postwar, neoliberal shift in American politics and economics. The socioeconomic and political neglect of African Americans was, of course, demonstrable in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, revealing the structural racism that had often resided in the US's political unconscious. Ward's emphasis on the ideas of survival and renewal – a “savage” resilience of humanity in its most precarious state – offers a corr

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Plum, Jay. "Accounting for the Audience in Historical Reconstruction: Martin Jones's Production of Langston Hughes's Mulatto." Theatre Survey 36, no. 1 (1995): 5–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557400006451.

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Although Langston Hughes's Mulatto holds the record as the second longest Broadway production of a play by an African American playwright (surpassed only by Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun), the reasons behind its commercial success have been virtually ignored. This oversight in part reflects a tendency among theatre scholars to treat the dramatic text as the primary (if not the only) source of a play's meaning. In the case of Mulatto, academic critics have debated its literary merit according to questions of form and genre. Webster Smalley, in his introduction to the collected plays

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Zaborowska, Magdalena J., Nicholas F. Radel, Nigel Hatton, and Ernest L. Gibson. "Rebranding James Baldwin and His Queer Others." James Baldwin Review 6, no. 1 (2020): 199–229. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/jbr.6.13.

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“Rebranding James Baldwin and His Queer Others” was a session held at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association in November 2019 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The papers gathered here show how Baldwin’s writings and life story participate in dialogues with other authors and artists who probe issues of identity and identification, as well as with other types of texts and non-American stories, boldly addressing theoretical and political perspectives different from his own. Nick Radel’s temporal challenge to reading novels on homoerotic male desire asks of us a leap of faith, one that makes i

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Du Plooy, B., and P. Ryan. "Identity, difference and healing: Reading Beloved within the context of John Caputo’s theory of hermeneutics." Literator 26, no. 1 (2005): 23–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v26i1.217.

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John Caputo’s interest in the human struggle towards healing/wholing is obvious in his contribution on the work of Foucault: “On not knowing who we are: Madness, hermeneutics, and the night of truth in Foucault” (Caputo, 1993:233-262). While basing his reading of madness as a form of human suffering on the work of Foucault, Caputo moves beyond Foucaultian theory – “in a direction that, while it was not taken by Foucault, is perhaps suggested by him” (Caputo, 1993:234) – by envisioning a hermeneutics of response and redress and a therapeutics of “healing gestures” (Caputo, 1993:234). In this ar

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Griffin, Farah Jasmine. "“Race,” Writing, and Difference: A Meditation." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 123, no. 5 (2008): 1516–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2008.123.5.1516.

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“Race,” Writing, and Difference first appeared in 1986. That Fall, I entered graduate school at Yale University; I still associate the book with those intellectually heady times. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., left the university before my arrival, but his influence was still felt, and we graduate students followed his every move. We also read and debated the essays of his volume with great excitement. The collection legitimated our intellectual concerns and delineated a set of questions that we would pursue throughout our graduate school careers. The volume set the bar high and helped prepare us for

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Honsalies-Munis, Svitlana. "MULTICULTURAL PECULIARITIES OF LINGUACULTURAL REALIA IN THE NOVEL ‘JAZZ’ BY TONY MORRISON." English and American Studies 1, no. 17 (2020): 104–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/382018.

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The article deals with the issue of linguistic and cultural realia and their peculiarities in Tony Morrison’s novel «Jazz». The study is carried out in the multicultural aspect and begins with the detailed analysis of the terms ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘multicultural literature’. The theoretical background of the article is based on the works of Taylor, Sanders, Gutmann,Zverev, Tolkachev, Denisova, Tlostanova in which they defined the concept of multiculturalism and dwelled on the issues of ethnic literatures and their peculiarities. The article focuses on the specific features of the multicultu

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Mafe, Diana Adesola. "Phoenix Rising: The Book of Phoenix and Black Feminist Resistance." MELUS 46, no. 2 (2021): 43–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlab021.

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Abstract This essay focuses on Nnedi Okorafor’s 2015 novel The Book of Phoenix and reads the black female protagonist and narrator, Phoenix Okore, as a powerful metaphor for a radical twenty-first-century black feminist politics and a signifier of the contemporary social movement Say Her Name. Phoenix is the product of experimentation, “a slurry of African DNA and cells” (146) who is birthed by an African American surrogate mother and then raised in a laboratory prison. She herself identifies as “SpeciMen, Beacon, Slave, Rogue, Fugitive, Rebel, Saeed’s Love, Mmuo’s Sister, Villain” (224). Okor

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Laanes, Eneken. "Heritage Communities and Human Rights: A Case Study from Catoctin Furnace, Maryland." Nordic Journal of Human Rights 41, no. 1 (2022): 87–104. https://doi.org/10.1080/18918131.2022.2151736.

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The village of Catoctin Furnace, located in rural Maryland, in the United States, houses an early iron furnace site. Operational by 1776, its workforce in the early years was almost entirely enslaved African and African American people. A local non-profit, the Catoctin Furnace Historical Society, Inc. (CFHS), on the board of which one of the authors serves, has made the search for a descendant community of these enslaved and freed Black workers a principal focus, while also preserving the heritage of European labourers and trying to foster economic and cultural activity in the village. So far,

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Swetha, M., B. R. Aravind, and R. K. Uthradevi. "Psychology of trauma and resilience in “The Nickel Boys”: A historical perspective." Applied Psychology Research 3, no. 2 (2024): 1413. http://dx.doi.org/10.59400/apr.v3i2.1413.

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This paper explores the depiction of trauma in Colson Whitehead’s “The Nickel Boys”, analyzing the experiences of its characters through the lens of trauma theory, particularly the works of Judith Herman and Cathy Caruth. Set against the historical backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement and the systemic racism of the 1960s, the novel highlights the physical and psychological abuse suffered by African American boys at the fictional Nickel Academy, based on the real-life Dozier School for Boys. By examining the characters’ journeys through Herman’s stages of trauma recovery and Caruth’s concept o

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Moore, Dashiell. "Recuperating the Value of Nothing in Erna Brodber’s Short Novel Nothing’s Mat." Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 27, no. 2 (2023): 18–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10795181.

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In Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere (2011), Raphael Dalleo draws on the concept of the field to note that Caribbean writers often “operate within a constrained set of possibilities governed by certain historically determined rules . . . from accommodation to opposition to more conflicted positions in-between.” Throughout her essays and fiction, the Jamaican writer, sociologist, and activist Erna Brodber recuperates discarded, illegible, or negative elements in the literary field of Caribbean literature. This essay argues that Brodber uses a mode of self-negation in her short novel No

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Goffe, Tao Leigh. "Stolen Life, Stolen Time." South Atlantic Quarterly 121, no. 1 (2022): 109–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00382876-9561573.

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Working on the B-side of time, this essay considers the way Afro-futurism often configures time as nonlinear and entangled. In doing so, it looks at contemporary apocalyptic forms of storytelling, Watchmen, Parasite, Black Mother, Exit West, and On Such a Full Sea. The way the timeline of racial capitalism is represented in each reveals how blackness affects narrative time and historical time. In addition to the stolen land (dispossession of Native sovereignty) and the stolen life (African enslavement) that inaugurated the Americas, stolen time is a critical axis of analysis. Speculative ficti

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Wolfson, Roberta. "Race Leaders, Race Traitors, and the Necropolitics of Black Exceptionalism in Paul Beatty’s Fiction." American Literature 91, no. 3 (2019): 619–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7722152.

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Abstract This essay examines two oppositional figures in Paul Beatty’s debut novel, The White Boy Shuffle (1996), and most recent novel, The Sellout (2015): the exalted race leader and the excoriated race traitor. Positioned at extreme ends of the spectrum of exceptionalism, these figures function to perpetuate a phenomenon that the essay’s author terms the necropolitics of black exceptionalism, the paradox of justifying the violent oppression of the majority of black people by celebrating or censuring a single black figure. In exploring the absurd dimensions of these extreme figures through t

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