Black and more than black : African American fiction in the post era /

"Post-Blackness. Post-Soul. Post-Black Art. New Blackness. How has the meaning of blackness changed in the twenty-first century? Cameron Leader-Picone suggests that this proliferation of terms, along with the renewed focus on questioning the relationship between individual black artists and the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Leader-Picone, Cameron (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2019]
Series:	Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.
Subjects:	American literature > African American authors > Criticism and interpretation. American literature > 21st century. Racism in literature. American literature. American literature > African American authors. 2000-2099 Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism.

Table of Contents:

On the blackness of post-blackness: Colson Whitehead and racial individualism
'Katrina is the mother we will remember until the next mother': apocalyptic storms and the slow violence of structural racism
'New and better stories': crafting a literature to fit a Barack Obama world
The audacity of Hope Jones: Alice Randall's Rebel Yell and the idealization of Barack Obama
A Non-American black guide to American blackness: rearticulating race through a diasporic lens
Coda. African American literature Post-Obama.