AfroSurrealism : The African Diaspora's Surrealist Fiction (Paperback)

Introduction: AfroSurrealism: A New Black Surrealism1. Mat Johnson’s Pym and Helen Oyeyemi’s boy snow bird: AfroSurrealism, Magical Realism, and the Psychology of Reimagining the Past2. Edwidge Danticat’s Claire of the Sea Light, Chris Abani’s The Secret History of Las Vegas, and the AfroSurreal Grotesque3. AfroSurreal and Afrofuturistic Cinematic Storytelling: Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Colson Whitehead’s Zone One4. The Postmodern Fables of Victor LaValle’s Big Machine and Summer Brenner’s Oakland Tales5. 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 Conclusion: Jeffery Renard Allen and Sustaining the Surreal MomentAppendix