...: New York Univ. Press. 2002. xvi, 205 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $19.00. Scholarship on literature depicting or produced by enslaved Africans in the diaspora has turned toward trauma in recent years. Angelyn Mitchell’s mono- graph on contemporary black women’s fiction that depicts both slavery...

... © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction . By James W. Coleman. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2006. 252 pp. $42.95. Cross-Cultural Visions in African...

...Alexis Pauline Gumbs Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination . By Mizelle Richard M. Jr. Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2014 . xii, 209 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper, $25.00 . Ain’t Got No Home: America’s Great Migrations...

... The White African American Body: A Cultural and Literary Exploration. By Charles D. Martin. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2002. xi, 221. Cloth, $59.00; paper, $22.00. Passing and the Rise...

.... $26.00. In recent years there has been a regular flow of scholarship on the Atlantic slave trade; comparatively little, however, has appeared on the internal trans- portation, distribution, and relocation of large numbers of these African men, women, and children, and their descendents, within...

... Book Reviews 201 Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson. By Keith Clark. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2002. x, 164 pp. $34.95. The Origins of African American Literature...

...Stephen Knadler Duke University Press 2006 Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861 . By John Ernest. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2004. xiv, 426 pp. Cloth, $64.95; paper, $24.95. The Contemporary African...

...Andreá N. Williams Ghosts of the African Diaspora: Re-visioning History, Memory, and Identity . By Joanne Chassot . Hanover, NH : Dartmouth College Press . 2018. xii, 247 pp. Cloth, $95.00 ; paper, $45.00 ; e-book, $7.99 . How to Read African American Literature: Post-Civil...

...Christopher Brown A History of the African American Novel . By Valerie Babb . Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press . 2017 . xi, 486 pp. Cloth, $ 46.99 ; e-book, $ 38.00 . African American Writing: A Literary Approach . By Werner Sollors . Philadelphia : Temple Univ. Press...

...Noelle Dubay The reviewer would like to acknowledge the recent passing of Cheryl A. Wall, along with the crucial and enduring contributions of her work to the study of African American literature. Across these books we find three newly conceptualized traditions within African American...

...Leigh Anne Duck Grounds of Engagement: Apartheid-Era African American and South African Writing . By Robolin Stéphane . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois Press . 2015 . xiii, 237 pp. Cloth , $45.00 ; e-book, $30.00 . Being Apart: Theoretical and Existential Resistance in Africana...

...Magdalena J. Zaborowska Unbought and Unbossed: Transgressive Black Women, Sexuality, and Representation . By Melancon Trimiko . Philadelphia, PA : Temple Univ. Press . 2014 . xv, 235 pp. Cloth , $74.50 ; paper, $26.95 ; e-book, $26.95 . Critical Appropriations: African...

...J. Peter Moore Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry . By Shockley Evie . Iowa City : Univ. of Iowa Press . 2011 . xii , 264 pp. Paper , $39.95 . Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants: Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s...

...Stephen Knadler Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership . By Edwards Erica R. . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2012 . xii, 249 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper, $25.00 , e-book available. Exodus Politics: Civil Rights and Leadership in African American Literature...

...Gayle Wald Book Reviews  841 James Weldon Johnson’s Modern Soundscapes. By Noelle Morrissette. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2013. xiii, 243 pp. Paper, $45.00. Jazz Griots: Music as History in the 1960s African American Poem. By Jean...

...: The Archaeology of Southern Fiction . By Annette Trefzer. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2007. xii, 223 pp. $38.50. Matter, Magic, and Spirit: Representing Indian and African American Belief . By David Murray. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2007. 213 pp. $59.95. Crossing Waters...

...Joseph Helminski © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Eating the Black Body: Miscegenation as Sexual Consumption in African American Literature and Culture . By Carlyle Van Thompson. New York: Peter Lang. 2006. xiii, 231 pp. Paper, $29.95. Deans and Truants: Race and Realism...

... periodicals such as the International Socialist Review,theMasses, and the Liberator and negoti- ated in more complicated terms by African American periodicals such as the Crisis,theVoice of the Negro,theMessenger, and the Crusader. According to Banta, while the Crisis and the Voice of the Negro remained...

... characters who are chastened by women charac- ters claiming the disciplinary power of white masculinity. African American women writers, however, resist such disciplinary efforts. Maria Stewart, for example, articulates her anger by appropriating the power of an Old Testa- ment God who criticizes gender...

... Book Reviews White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies and Gentlemen of Colour: William Brown’s African and American Theater.By Marvin McAllister. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2003. x, 239 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $18.95. Theatre, Society...