Includes bibliographical references and index.

1 At the Crossroads of Continuity and Disruption: Exploring the Contemporary African American Novel --   Raphaël Lambert and Anna Pochmara -- 2 Creative Practices of Resistance in Contemporary Narratives of Slavery of the Twenty-First Century --   Luana de Souza Sutter -- 3 Agency and Property in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad --   Raphaël Lambert -- 4 Remembering Generations in Homegoing : Rewriting Roots for the Twenty-First Century --   Miguel Sanz Jiménez -- 5 Ifemelu’s Online Linguistic and Identity Performances in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah --   Dorottya Mozes -- 6 The New African Diaspora and Afropolitanism in the Work of Taiye Selasi --   Elisa Bordin -- 7 Exposure in Teju Cole’s Photography and Fiction --   Nicholas Gamso -- 8 “How Does it Feel to Be Free of One’s Illusions?”: Erasure and the Anti-Essentialist Ethos of Percival Everett --   Kamil Chrzczonowicz -- 9 From Freedom to Struggle: Colson Whitehead’s Apex Hides the Hurt as a Denouncement of Surface Fetishism --   Mirosław Aleksander Miernik -- 10 Voluntary Slavery and Omnipresent Black Fathers: The Thirdspace of Blackness in Paul Beatty’s The Sellout --   Anna Pochmara -- 11 Modes of Change in the Africanfuturism of Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death --   Brian Willems -- 12 Afrofuturist Alternate History in the Post-Race Era: Justina Ireland’s Dread Nation --   Julia Lindsay -- 13 Same As It Ever Was: Dehumanizing the American Cityscape in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One --   Jamie Brummer -- 14 “This Is a Place for the Dead”: Reading the Child Ghost in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing --   Lucy Arnold -- 15 “Hey, Celestial”: Loving Girls and Aging in Toni Morrison’s Love --   Mar Gallego -- Index.

The African American Novel in the Early Twenty-First Century comprises fourteen essays, each focussing on recent, widely known fiction by acclaimed African American authors. This volume showcases the originality, diversity, and vitality of contemporary African American literature, which has reached a bewildering yet exhilarating stage of disruption and continuity between today and yesterday, homegrown and diasporic identities, and local and global interrelatedness. Additionally, it delves into the complexity of the Black literary imagination and its interaction with broader cultural contexts. Lastly, it reflects on the evolution of the African American community, its tribulations, triumphs, challenges, and prospects.

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