Using literary criticism, theory, and sociohistoric data, this book brings into conversation black migrations with mystery novels by African American women, novels which explore fully the psychic, economic, and spiritual impact of mass migratory movements.

Autorentext

Carol Allen received her Ph.D. in American literature from Rutgers University and her M.A. and B.A. in English from the University of Virginia. Dr. Allen has been employed at Long Island University since 1995 and has been a full professor in the English Department since 2009 and Director of the Africana Studies Program since 2005. Her previous publications include several journal articles, reviews, and two books: Peculiar Passages: Black Women Playwrights, 1875 to 2000 and Black Women Intellectuals: Strategies of Nation, Family, and Neighborhood in the Works of Pauline Hopkins, Jessie Fauset, and Marita Bonner.

Inhalt

Introduction - Bending the Falcon: Black Women Writers Revamp Mysteries - Integrationist Tales - Travel: Meditations on Postmodernism - Family Compounds - Homegrown Religion - Ubiquitous, Invisible Class - On the Block - Sensuality: A Reverberating Force - Notes - Select Bibliography.