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{"title":"At the Edges, and: Sky Closing","authors":"Adam Day","doi":"10.1353/afa.2023.a903603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2023.a903603","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44779,"journal":{"name":"AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47780905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/afa.2023.a903621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2023.a903621","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44779,"journal":{"name":"AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135469445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Do We Ever Know (When) We Are Dead?, and: Prison Diary","authors":"M. K. Barya","doi":"10.1353/afa.2023.a903602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2023.a903602","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44779,"journal":{"name":"AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44554222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Kind of Blue: Variation Two, and: Definition of Blue, and: Heartache Ghazal, and: How to Cry without Tears, and: Root of My Blues, and: Emancipation Blues","authors":"Lolita Stewart-White","doi":"10.1353/afa.2023.a903607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2023.a903607","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44779,"journal":{"name":"AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45455805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Emancipation’s Daughters: Reimagining Black Femininity and the National Body by Riché Richardson (review)","authors":"C. Henderson","doi":"10.1353/afa.2023.a903616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2023.a903616","url":null,"abstract":"themselves, as opposed to the latent possibilities found within Puritanism? Second, to what extent could this latter-day Puritan self-description compete with and perhaps displace contemporaneous formations of whiteness? This is an undertaking that could reveal affinities or antagonisms between religious and racial taxonomies. Differentiating the abolitionists’ Puritan genealogy from the whiteness of American nationalism may also require further reframing of and distance from the familiar Americanist narratives of American literary nationalism on which the book relies, its nod to Nietzsche’s concept of critical historiography notwithstanding. Perhaps the greater ongoing challenge and opportunity for abolitionist scholarship in this period of abolitionist incandescence is to recognize the constructs through which we reconstruct the antebellum abolition movement—in this case, print-mediated public culture—as “color-blind” liberal frames for inclusion, despite their value to our recovery of African American literary and political life. Indeed, the interest that drives students and scholars to modern abolition in its contemporary context may well call us to demystify the role of print and to ask not just what people were reading or even who was reading but also what people were doing with what they were reading. No doubt students interested and engaged in abolitionist social movements are asking the same questions of readers of today’s abolitionist scholarship. The dynamic, socially productive function of an abolitionist literature within African American and white reform cultures—paired with a scholarship that tracks and projects its reorganization of gendered and racialized social relations into our own time—remains the legacy of a movement that continues to unsettle us.","PeriodicalId":44779,"journal":{"name":"AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41691548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sun Ra’s Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City by William Sites (review)","authors":"T. R. Johnson","doi":"10.1353/afa.2023.a903620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2023.a903620","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44779,"journal":{"name":"AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48114007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Call My Name, Clemson: Documenting the Black Experience in an American University Community by Rhondda Robinson Thomas (review)","authors":"C. Eils","doi":"10.1353/afa.2023.a903608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2023.a903608","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44779,"journal":{"name":"AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43531050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press by Kim Gallon (review)","authors":"Bernie Lombardi","doi":"10.1353/afa.2022.0050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0050","url":null,"abstract":"During the late 1920s and early 1930s, a period characterized by loosening sexual mores, one could find images of markedly attractive Black women in bathing suits (“bathing beauties,” as they were called) throughout the pages of Black American newspapers—the Chicago Defender, Pittsburgh Courier, and New York Amsterdam News, among others. These images were part of the Black press’s coverage of beauty pageants and were representative of what the press imagined readers wanted to see. In Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press, Kim Gallon draws on an archive of Black newspaper content published between the World Wars to situate the Black press as a public sphere of sexuality that fostered transformative discourses on sexual agency, pleasure, and respectability. The mass migration of Southern Blacks to Northern metropolitan areas diversified the Black press’s readership, encouraging a level of ambivalence toward issues of sexuality and racial uplift. With the ultimate goal of selling newspapers, the Black press featured sensationalist content that appealed to (and fed on) the conflicting values of newly arrived working-class migrants, middle-class African Americans, and the locally established urban elite. Such content brought into question fundamental issues around the nature of sexual agency and its relationship to racial progress. For example, its coverage of high-profile divorce and sex scandals created an opportunity for the masses to pass moral judgment on the more “respectable” classes. As Gallon writes, Black newspapers and their readers “upset elite black and middle-class morality and respectability by exposing and consuming news about their private sexual lives” (73). In addition, readers achieved a level of sexual agency by voicing their opinions in letters to editors as well as a more fundamental “sensual pleasure that is imbricated in the act of reading and viewing” (7). Not only did migration bring a diverse new readership to Northern cities, but it also facilitated the movement of newspapers throughout the country, thus expanding the parameters of this Black public sexual sphere. Cities like Pittsburgh were temporary stopping-points for young migrants moving between the South and the larger cities of the North. Migrants moving through Pittsburgh purchased copies of the Courier and after reading, shared them with others along their journey, extending the Courier’s reach. “I read it with care and then send it between 200 and 300 miles for others to read,” said one reader in a letter to the editor (22). The Courier also sent columnists on tours of the South so that it could learn to speak adequately to the cultures and concerns of its expanding readership. The circulation of Black newspapers throughout the country also exposed Southern readers to the North’s changing attitude toward sexuality. Coverage of homosexuality and female impersonation in Northeastern newspapers like the New York Amsterdam","PeriodicalId":44779,"journal":{"name":"AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43135686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840–1865 by William L. Andrews (review)","authors":"E. Gardner","doi":"10.1353/afa.2022.0048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0048","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44779,"journal":{"name":"AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42745550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The (Neo-)Slave Narrative and the Plantationocene","authors":"Teresa A. Goddu","doi":"10.1353/afa.2022.0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0040","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Utilizing the concept of the Plantationocene, which articulates how racial capitalism created and continues to shape the climate crisis, this essay connects the slave narrative to the contemporary neo-slave narrative to show how the plantation serves as the “ugly blueprint” (McKittrick) of the climate crisis. It also traces the alternative ecologies of resistance and repair that this literature encodes. By reading African American literature as climate literature, I seek to expand climate fiction’s canon, thus transforming how the genre is most often configured around white writers and recentering it on race. White supremacy, African American literature argues, has long fueled and continues to drive the climate crisis.","PeriodicalId":44779,"journal":{"name":"AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45515259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}