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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The 1920s to the 1960s: Affirming a Black Aesthetic | |
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| Criteria of Negro Art | |
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| The Negro-Art Hokum | |
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| The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain | |
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| Characteristics of Negro Expression | |
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| Blueprint for Negro Writing | |
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| What White Publishers Won't Print | |
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| Self-Criticism: The Third Dimension in Culture | |
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| Expressive Language | |
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| Brave Words for a Startling Occasion | |
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| And Shine Swam On: An Afterword | |
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| The Black Writer and His Role | |
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| The 1970s: The Onset of Theory and the Emergence of Black Feminist Critique | |
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| Some Reflections on the Black Aesthetic | |
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| Cultural Strangulation: Black Literature and the White Aesthetic | |
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| Inside the Funk Shop: A Word on Black Words | |
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| Saturation: Progress Report on a Theory of Black Poetry | |
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| On the Criticism of Black American Literature: One View of the Black Aesthetic | |
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| Toward a Black Feminist Criticism | |
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| Preface to Blackness: Text and Pretext | |
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| The 1980s: Poststructuralism and the Growth of Feminist Theory | |
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| New Directions for Black Feminist Criticism | |
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| Generational Shifts and the Recent Criticism of Afro-American Literature | |
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| Some Implications of Womanist Theory | |
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| Belief, Theory, and Blues: Notes for a Post-Structuralist Criticism of Afro-American Literature | |
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| "Woman's Era": Rethinking Black Feminist Theory | |
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| Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book | |
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| The Race for Theory | |
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| The Black Canon: Reconstructing Black American Literary Criticism | |
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| "What's Love Got to Do with It?": Critical Theory, Integrity, and the Black Idiom | |
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| In Dubious Battle | |
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| "Who the Cap Fit": Unconsciousness and Unconscionableness in the Criticism of Houston A. Baker, Jr., and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | |
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| Appropriative Gestures: Theory and Afro-American Literary Criticism | |
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| Introduction to The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism | |
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| Speaking in Tongues: Dialogics, Dialectics, and the Black Woman Writer's Literary Tradition | |
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| Black Feminist Theory and the Representation of the "Other" | |
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| The 1990s: Feminist Expansions, Queer Theory, and the Turn to Cultural Studies | |
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| Revision and (Re)membrance: A Theory of Literary Structures in Literature by African-American Women Writers | |
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| Toward a Black Gay Aesthetic: Signifying in Contemporary Black Gay Literature | |
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| Theoretical Returns | |
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| Phallus(ies) of Interpretation: Toward Engendering the Black Critical "I" | |
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| Nationalism and Social Division in Black Arts Poetry of the 1960s | |
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| The Problems with Silence and Exclusiveness in the African American Literary Community | |
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| Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality | |
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| Some Glances at the Black Fag: Race, Same-Sex Desire, and Cultural Belonging | |
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| The Crisis in Black American Literary Criticism and the Postmodern Cures of Houston A. Baker, Jr., and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | |
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| A Black Man's Place in Black Feminist Criticism | |
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| Black Feminist Thinking: The "Practice" of "Theory" | |
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| "All the Things You Could Be by Now, If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother": Psychoanalysis and Race | |
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| Tearing the Goat's Flesh: Homosexuality, Abjection, and the Production of a Late Twentieth-Century Black Masculinity | |
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| African Signs and Spirit Writing | |
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| Mapping the Interstices between Afro-American Cultural Discourse and Cultural Studies: A Prolegomenon | |
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| Cultural Narratives Passed On: African American Mourning Stories | |
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| Introduction to Race Men: The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures | |
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| Malcolm's Conk and Danto's Colors; or, Four Logical Petitions Concerning Race, Beauty, and Aesthetics | |
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| Suggested Readings since the 1970s for African American Literary/Cultural Theory: A Select Bibliography | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Permissions | |
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| Index | |