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Articles 1-22 out of 22 article(s) Title Author Type Date Words The art of Tom Dent: notes on early evidence. Ward, Jerry W., Jr. Critical essay Jun 22, 2006 3419 The conspiracy of masculinity in Ishmael Reed. Strombeck, Andrew Critical essay Jun 22, 2006 7278 "The strangest freaks of despotism": queer sexuality in Antebellum African American slave narratives. Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah I. Critical essay Jun 22, 2006 8830 "A direction of one's own": alienation in Mrs. Dalloway and Sula. Fulton, Lorie Watkins Mar 22, 2006 6967 Fading to white, fading away: biracial bodies in Michelle Cliff's Abeng and Danzy Senna's Caucasia. Dagbovie, Sika Alaine Mar 22, 2006 10732 "In the glad flesh of my fear": Corporeal Inscriptions in Richard Bruce Nugent's Geisha Man. Schmidt, Tyler T. Mar 22, 2006 6654 "Try to refrain from that desire": self-control and violent passion in Oscar Micheaux's African American Western. Johnson, Michael K. Critical Essay Sep 22, 2004 11194 National socialism and blood-sacrifice in Zora Neale Hurston's Moses, Man of the Mountain. Thompson, Mark Christian Critical Essay Sep 22, 2004 13695 Not entirely strange, but not entirely friendly either: images of Jews in African American passing novels through the Harlem renaissance. Meyer, Adam Critical Essay Sep 22, 2004 6353 "Like a violin for the wind to play": lyrical approaches to lynching by Hughes, Du Bois, and Toomer. Banks, Kimberly Critical Essay Sep 22, 2004 9182 Inverting history in Octavia Butler's postmodern slave narrative. Steinberg, Marc Critical Essay Sep 22, 2004 6044 Hard-boiled black easy: genre conventions in A Red Death. Gray, W. Russel Critical Essay Sep 22, 2004 5728 "Passing on" death: stealing life in Toni Morrison's Paradise. Aguiar, Sarah Appleton Critical Essay Sep 22, 2004 4294 A short history of contemporary black erotic fiction: the best of black erotic literature since 1992 reveals as much about our souls and how they connect as it does about how we entangle and unite our bodies. Carroll, Denolyn Sep 1, 2004 821 Dead letter office: conspiracy, trauma, and Song of Solomon's posthumous communication. Rothberg, Michael Critical Essay Dec 22, 2003 9819 Rumors of Grace: white masculinity in Pauline Hopkins's contending forces. McCoy, Beth Critical Essay Dec 22, 2003 7681 Other nature: resistance to ecological hegemony in Charles W. Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman. Myers, Jeffrey Mar 22, 2003 10199 "This strange communion": surveillance and spectatorship in Ann Petry's The Street. Hicks, Heather Mar 22, 2003 11148 Richard Wright's Lawd Today! And the political uses of modernism. Costello, Brannon Mar 22, 2003 8623 Transgressing race and community in Chester Himes's If He Hollers Let Him Go. Itagaki, Lynn M. Mar 22, 2003 11141 Truth in timbre: Morrison's extension of slave narrative song in Beloved. Capuano, Peter J. Mar 22, 2003 5175 Langston Hughes's "Mississippi--1955": a note on revisions and an appeal for reconsideration. Metress, Christopher Mar 22, 2003 5350