African American Review articles from March 2006

African American Review archives from March 2006

Nellie McKay--a memorial.(Nellie Yvonne McKay)(Editorial)(Biography)
March 22, 2006... Foreword Before editing this special section, I could not have imagined that 50 writers could praise a single person in the mellifluent diversity with which the 50 scholars and students who wrote for this section commemorate Nellie Yvonne...

"The Nellie Tree," or, disbanding the Wheatley Court.(african american literature)
March 22, 2006... We must disband the Wheatley court so that African American literature can become a full member of the company of world literatures, open to all who wish to participate in its bounty. (366) To my graduate students, in all their diversity,...

"A direction of one's own": alienation in Mrs. Dalloway and Sula.(Toni Morrison's evaluation of William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf's novels)
March 22, 2006... Before Toni Morrison became the goddess of contemporary literature, she was Chloe Ardellia Wofford, a graduate student at Cornell who, in 1955, completed a master's thesis exploring manifestations of alienation in the works of William Faulkner...

Traveling identities: mixed race quests and Fran Ross's Oreo.
March 22, 2006... The Frontier: Where Two Come Together Traveling to my grandmother's funeral during my first marriage, my white husband and I walked down the narrow plane aisle toward our seats. In front of me was a black woman who stopped the line when...

Fading to white, fading away: biracial bodies in Michelle Cliff's Abeng and Danzy Senna's Caucasia.
March 22, 2006... However dissimilar individual bodies are, the compelling idea of common, racially indicative bodily characteristics offers a welcome short-cut into the favored forms of solidarity and connection, even if they are effectively denied by divergent...

Maternal discourses in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber.
March 22, 2006... Even in the early twenty-first century, despite great strides in various feminist and womanist movements, the most socially acceptable roles for women in western cultures--namely daughter, wife, and especially mother--are roles that often posit...

Oratory, embodiment, and US citizenship in Sutton E. Griggs's Imperium in Imperio.
March 22, 2006... As one shapes a prose style, one shapes a self.--John Stark, "Rhetoric, Literacy, and Citizenship" By the close of the nineteenth century African Americans had, in theory, achieved the rights of citizenship. The official language of the...

The Harlem Renaissance as postcolonial phenomenon.
March 22, 2006... "Wonder why he chose an American college? Most of the chiefs' sons'll go to Oxford or bust. I know--this fellow is probably from Liberia or thereabouts. American influence--see?"--Rudolph Fisher, The Conjure Man Dies The Harlem...

"In the glad flesh of my fear": Corporeal Inscriptions in Richard Bruce Nugent's Geisha Man.
March 22, 2006... But his whisper made me think of another man--a man who had struck me in the face with the hard palm and knuckles of his hand. A man who had left the taste of blood on my lips. A man who had never spoken to me since, and whom I had only seen...

Noliwe M. Rooks. Ladies' Pages: African American Women's Magazines and the Culture That Made Them.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Noliwe M. Rooks. Ladies' Pages: African American Women's Magazines and the Culture That Made Them. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2004. 175 pp. $60.00 cloth/ $19.95 paper. African American women's popular culture in the decades following...

Andrea O'Reilly. Toni Morrison and Motherhood: A Politics of the Heart.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Andrea O'Reilly. Toni Morrison and Motherhood: A Politics of the Heart. Albany: State U of New York P, 2004. 229 pp. $84.50 cloth/$23.95 paper. Toni Morrison and Motherhood, by Andrea O'Reilly, provides a critical reading of motherhood and...

Annelise Orleck. Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Annelise Orleck. Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty. Boston: Beacon P, 2005, 368 pp. $20.00. As former and current welfare recipient, single parent, college student and community activists, we are all...

Krin Gabbard. Black Magic: White Hollywood and African American Culture.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Krin Gabbard. Black Magic: White Hollywood and African American Culture. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UPS, 2004. 299 pp. $62.00. The recent surge of scholarly interest in African American films has yielded an increasing number of books on the...

Harry Elam, Jr., and Robert Alexander, eds. The Fire This Time: African American Plays for the Twenty-First Century.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Harry Elam, Jr., and Robert Alexander, eds. The Fire This Time: African American Plays for the Twenty-First Century. New York: TCG, 2004. 595 pp. $18.95. The nine plays in this anthology, the second collection edited by Harry Elam and...

Aldon Nielsen and Lauri Ramey, eds. Every Goodbye Ain't Gone: An Anthology of Innovative Poetries by African American Artists.(Rainbow Darkness: An Anthology of African American Poetry)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Aldon Nielsen and Lauri Ramey, eds. Every Goodbye Ain't Gone: An Anthology of Innovative Poetries by African American Artists. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2006. 224 pp. $60.00 cloth/$27.95 paper. Keith Tuma, ed. Rainbow Darkness: An...

Keith Byerman. Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Keith Byerman. Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2005. 240 pp. $49.95 cloth/$19.95 paper. In the open scene of Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada, protagonist Raven Quickskill...

Steven C. Tracy, ed. A Historical Guide to Ralph Ellison.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Steven C. Tracy, ed. A Historical Guide to Ralph Ellison. New York: Oxford UP, 2004. 276 pp. $45.00 cloth/$17.95 paper. Let's face it. Ralph Ellison's literary reputation rests largely on Invisible Man. One would think therefore that after...

Gary Storhoff. Understanding Charles Johnson.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Gary Storhoff. Understanding Charles Johnson. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2004. 272 pp. $34.95. Gary Storhoff's Understanding Charles Johnson is another addition to the Understanding Contemporary American Literature series. Storhoff...

Jeffery Allen Tucker. A Sense of Wonder: Samuel R. Delany, Race, Identity, and Difference.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Jeffery Allen Tucker. A Sense of Wonder: Samuel R. Delany, Race, Identity, and Difference. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 2004. 344 pp. $27.95. Jeffery A. Tucker has written a provocative work with the hope of rescuing one of the most...