African American Literature in Transition, 1940-1950: Volume 11

Michael D. Hill is the inaugural director of the DeLaney Center as well as a Professor and Chair of Africana Studies at Washington and Lee University. He co-wrote Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: A Reference Guide (2008), authored The Ethics of Swagger: Prizewinning African American Novels, 1977–1993 (2013), and co-edited Invisible Hawkeyes: African Americans at the University of Iowa During the Long Civil Rights Era (2016). He received the Nick Aaron Ford-Waters Edward Turpin Award and an honorable mention for the Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award. Currently, he is drafting Weathervanes of Democracy: Adolescence in African American Novels, 1937–2016.

• List of illustrations; List of contributors; General editor's preface; Chronology; Introduction: without apology or applause, black writing from 1940 to 1950 Michael D. Hill; Part I. Fiction: 1. In a strange country: The African American short story as/and historical change Marc C. Conner; 2. 1940s Black novels and the consequences of thematic repertoire Michael D. Hill; 3. The left, out: The ambiguous legacy of the 1940s Donald Kizza-Brown; Part II. Poetry: 4. 'Time unhinged the gates': synoptic vision in 1940s African American Literature Brent Krammes; 5. People's poets, demotic rhythms, and the riddle of Black internationalism James Alexander Robinson; 6. Arc of modernity – African American poetics of the nineteen forties R. Baxter Miller; 7. Gwendolyn Brooks and 'holler[ing] down the lions' of poetry Stewart Habig; Part III. Nonfiction: 8. Unco-opted: Cooperative economies as counter surveillance Irvin J. Hunt; 9. 'The Mirror of Our Consciousnes': Psychoanalysis and Visual Culture in Nonfiction Essays, 1940–1950 Catherine A. Stewart; 10. History and literature in Black autobiography from the Harlem Renaissance through the civil rights movement Marta Holliday; Part IV. Drama and Film: 11. 'The problem of the hero': the ensemble and the star in African American Theater, 1940–1950 Melissa Barton; 12. Evolving roles and film adaptions of 1940s African American novels Sharon L. Jones; Bibliography; Index.

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