Margo N. Crawford - What is African American Literature?

1 Cover

2 Title Page

3 Copyright Page

4 Acknowledgments

5 Introduction: The Affective Atmosphere of African American Literature The Idea of the Black Book How Do You Bind Nerve Endings? Notes

6 1 The Textual Production of Black Affect Toni Morrison’s Blush Notes

7 2 Mood Books Hughes’ Signifying on Signifying Bodily Feeling in In Our Terribleness and Ask Your Mama Rethinking Literary Tradition Through Mood Notes

8 3 The Vibrations of African American Literature Feeling of Vibration (Not Imitation) The Vibrations of Cane To Choose and Lose Signature: Entering into the Not Yet Here Endnotes

9 4 Shiver : The Diasporic Shock of Elsewhere Beyond the Impulse to Anthologize: the Shiver of What is Left Out Notes

10 5 Twitch or Wink : The Literary Afterlife of the Afterlife of Slavery The Twitch and Winks in Post‐Neo‐Slave Narratives Winking at the Psychic Hold of Slavery in Black Arts Movement‐Era Drama Baraka’s Reinvention of Slavery in Slave Ship and The Slave Ntozake Shange’s Performance of Body/Air Tensions Atmos‐Feeling in Funnyhouse of a Negro Notes

11 CODA Notes

12 Index

13 End User License Agreement

1 Chapter 0Figure 1. Bernard Malamud, The Tenants (1971)

2 Chapter 1 Figure 2. Figure 3.Figure 4. The New Yorker , Kara Walker, 2019.

3 Chapter 3Figure 5. Author’s Photograph. Boston, Massachusetts.Figure 6. Broadside Press, 1975.Figure 7. Martin Puryear, Cane (2000)

4 Chapter 5Figure 8. Author’s Photograph, 2014.

1 Introduction: The Affective Atmosphere of African American Literature

2 Cover Page

3 What is African American Literature?

4 Title Page

5 Copyright

6 Acknowledgments

7 Table of Contents

8 Begin Reading

9 CODA

10 Index

11 WILEY END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT

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