Street, Text, and Representation in African American Literature: Urban Writing/Dwelling [Hardcover]

1.? ? ? Introduction: Writing the Urban Dwelling

a.????? Black Literary Authenticity: Humanism versus Pessimism

b.???? Aims, Questions, and Methodologies

c.????? The Purpose of this Study

d.???? The Double-Edged Sword of Urban Sociology

e.????? Street Literature as Responding to the Urban Sociological?Mythos

f.????? A Note on Interpretation and Value

2.???? Part I: Street

a.????? Chapter Synopsis

b.???? Introduction

c.????? Preparing to Read the Street

d.???? Street Literature at the Intersection of Blackness and Urbanization

e.????? The Street Novel: An Urban Differential in Literature

f.????? A Close Reading of Two Gen(d)erations in Street Novels: Iceberg Slim

g.???? A Close Reading of Two Gen(d)erations in Street Novels: Sister Souljah

h.???? Conclusion

3.???? Part II: Text

a.????? Chapter Synopsis

b.???? Introduction: Four Tropes of the Street-as-Text

c.????? Temporal Factors Affecting Tropological Semantics

d.???? Passing: A Comparative Reading of Himes, Beck, and Tyree

e.????? Peddling: A Comparative Reading of Autobiographical Street Fiction

f.????? Pandering: A Comparative Reading of Sexual Exchange and Economy

g.???? Preaching: A Comparative Reading of Demagogues and Messiahs

h.???? Rineharts Face(lessness): (De)constructing the Four Tropes

i.?????? Rinehartism and the Author-Function Problem in Street Literature

j.?????? Defining Rinehartism with Strong Semantics

k.???? Table 1: The Ontology of Rinehartism

l.?????? Conclusion