What Is African American Literature?

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Affective Atmosphere of African American Literature -- The Idea of the Black Book -- How Do You Bind Nerve Endings? -- Notes -- Chapter 1 The Textual Production of Black Affect: The Blush of Toni Morrison's Last Novel -- Toni Morrison's Blush -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Mood Books -- Hughes' Signifying on Signifying -- Bodily Feeling in In Our Terribleness and Ask Your Mama -- Rethinking Literary Tradition Through Mood -- Notes -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 4 Shiver: The Diasporic Shock of Elsewhere -- Beyond the Impulse to Anthologize: the Shiver of What is Left Out -- Notes -- Chapter 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 -- CODA -- Index -- EULA.

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