Afrosurrealism : The African Diaspora’s Surrealist Fiction

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: AfroSurrealism: a new black surrealism AfroSurrealism: a distinct movement and opportunity for social change Notes Works cited 1. Mat Johnson’s Pym and Helen Oyeyemi’s boy snow bird: AfroSurrealism, magical realism, and the psychology of reimagining the past Afrosurrealism as a subset of black modernism boy snow bird and rethinking primitivism Conclusion Notes Works cited 2. Edwidge Danticat’s Claire of the Sea Light, Chris Abani’s The Secret History of Las Vegas, and the AfroSurreal grotesque Works cited 3. AfroSurreal and Afrofuturist cinematic storytelling: Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Colson Whitehead’s Zone One Using visual technologies to understand the past Avoyage into Afrofuturism: visual technologies and surviving the dystopia Notes Works cited 4. The postmodern fables of Victor LaValle’s Big Machine and Summer Brenner’s Oakland Tales Works cited 5. Horror and immortality in Tananarive Due’s Ghost Summer, Nalo Hopkinson’s Falling in Love with Hominids, and Rachel Eliza Griffiths’ Woman after Her Last Wound Tananarive Due: revisiting and assimilating selves through horror Hopkinson’s delicious monster(s): exploring indigenous science and the literary homeplace Rachel Eliza Griffiths’ shifting selves and memories Notes Works cited Conclusion: Jeffrey Renard Allen and sustaining the surreal moment Appendix Index