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050 00 PS508.N3|bB67 2015 
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100 1  Bragg, Beauty,|d1969-|eauthor. 
245 10 Reading contemporary African American literature :|bBlack 
       women's popular fiction, post-civil rights experience, and
       the African American canon /|cBeauty Bragg. 
264  1 Lanham :|bLexington Books,|c[2015] 
300    xx, 119 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-115) and 
       index. 
505 0  The reconstructionist canon, Black feminist literary 
       perspectives, and popular potential -- Toni Morrison's tar
       baby and the problem of classification -- Girlfriend 
       fiction : Black women writers and readers negotiating post
       -civil rights womanhood -- Feminism and the streets : 
       urban fiction and the quest for female independence in the
       era of transactional sexuality -- Hip hop tell-all memoirs
       and modes of self-construction -- Conclusion : from 
       critical practice to classroom practice. 
520    Reading Contemporary African American Literature focuses 
       on the subject of contemporary African American popular 
       fiction by women. Bragg’s study addresses why such work 
       should be the subject of scholarly examination, describes 
       the events and attitudes which account for the critical 
       neglect of this body of work, and models a critical 
       approach to such narratives that demonstrates the 
       distinctive ways in which this literature captures the 
       complexities of post-civil rights era black experiences. 
       In making her arguments regarding the value of popular 
       writing, Bragg argues that black women’s popular fiction 
       foregrounds gender in ways that are frequently missing 
       from other modes of narrative production. They exhibit a 
       responsiveness and timeliness to the shifting social 
       terrain which is reflected in the rapidly shifting styles 
       and themes which characterize popular fiction. In doing so,
       they extend the historical function of African American 
       literature by continuing to engage the black body as a 
       symbol of political meaning in the social context of the 
       United States. In popular literature Beauty Bragg locates 
       a space from which black women engage a variety of public 
       discourses. --Provided by publisher. 
650  0 American literature|xAfrican American authors. 
650  0 American literature|xWomen authors. 
650  7 American literature|xAfrican American authors.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst00807114 
650  7 American literature|xWomen authors.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst00807271 
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651  7 United States.|0(DE-588)4078704-7|2gnd 
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