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Recent Publications by AALCS Members

Calloway, Licia Morrow. Black Family (Dys)Function in Novels by Jessie
      Fauset, Nella Larsen, & Fannie Hurst. New York: Peter Lang, 2003.

Demirturk, E. Lale. "Postcolonial Reflections on the Discourse of
      Whiteness: Paule Marshall's The Chosen Place, the Timeless People."
      CLA Journal
(forthcoming).

---. "Passing for White: Cultural hybridization in modern African American
      Novel." (in Turkish) Türkiye Günlügü (Turkish Diary) Fall 2004.

---. "African American Great Migration Novel" (in Turkish) Kebikeç, No. 16
      (2003): 403-425.

Donalson, Melvin. Black Directors in Hollywood. Austin, TX: University of
      Texas Press, 2003.

King, Lovalerie King. A Students’ Guide to African American Literature, 1760
      to the
Present. Foreword by Trudier Harris-Lopez. Peter Lang, 2003.

---. “Resistance, Reappropriation, and Reconciliation: The Blues and Flying
      Africans in Gayl Jones’s Song for Anninho.” Callaloo. 27. 3 (Summer 2004).

---. “Womanism from Zora Neale Hurston to Alice Walker.” In The Cambridge
      Companion to the African American Novel
. Ed. Maryemma Graham.
      2004. 233-252.

---. “Counterdiscourses on the Racialization of Theft and Morality in Douglass's
      1845 Narrative and Jacobs's Incidents.” MELUS 28.4 (Winter 2003): 54-82.

Nielsen, Aldon Lynn. _Integral Music: Languages of African American
      Innovation
_. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: U of Alabama P, 2004.

---. “Fugitive Fictions.” African American Review 37.2-3 (2003): 321-31.

---. “Stained Glass Widow” and “Other Matters” (poems). _Hambone_. 17 (2004):
      193-96.

Moody, Joycelyn K. “Enslaved Women as Autobiographical Narrators: The
      Case of Louisa Picquet.” Rhetoric and Ethnicity. Ed. Keith Gilyard and
      Vorris Nunley. New York: Heinemann-Boynton-Cook, 2004. 15-23.

---. Review of Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African
      American Literary Societies
, by Elizabeth McHenry. Modern Language
      Quarterly
66.1 (2005): 143-147.

---. Review of Harriet Jacobs: A Life, by Jean Fagan Yellin. Women’s Review
      of Books
(Winter 2004).

---. “To Be Young, Pregnant, and Black: My Life as a Welfare Coed.”
      Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, and the Promise of Education in
      America.
Ed. Vivyan C. Adair and Sandra Dahlberg. Philadelphia: Temple
      UP, 2003. 85-96.

Thomas, Jr., Joseph T. "Child Poets and the Poetry of the Playground."
      Children's Literature Spring 32 (2004): 152-77.

Ward, Jerry W., Jr. "Everybody's Protest Novel: The Era of Richard Wright."
      The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel. Ed. Maryemma
      Graham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 173-188.

---. "Prologue to an Essay on African American Satire." Black Magnolias
      2.2
(2003): 2-8.

---. "I Have Felt the Gulf: Mississippi," "Journey 55," "After the Report from
      Iron Mountain." Furious Flower: African American Poetry from the Black
      Arts Movement to the Present
. Ed. Joanne V. Gabbin. Charlottesville:
      University of Virginia Press, 2004. 143-146.

Woodard, Loretta G. Review of Kevin J. Wetmore’s Black Dionysus Greek
      Tragedy and African American Theatre. OBSIDIAN III
(Spring/Summer
      2004): 180-183.

---. Review of Joanne Megna-Wallace’s Understanding I Know Why the
       Caged Bird Sings: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources,
       and Historical Documents. Journal of African American
       History 89
. 1 (Winter 2004): 87-88.

---. Review of Maria Lauret’s Alice Walker. African American Review 37.1
      (Spring 2003): 170-171.

---. “The Will to Survive in Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place.” In
      Women in Literature: Reading Through the Lens of Gender. Eds. Jerily
      Fisher and Ellen S. Silber. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003. 303-305.


Mother Love, Rita Dove

"The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories."

Margaret Walker, in Black World, December 1971

I Know What Red Clay Looks Like, Rebecca Carroll

The Gathering of My Name, Cornelius Eady

The Interesting Narrative, Oludah Equiano