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Index to Volume 31 Articles George, Stephen K., “The Horror of Bigger Thomas: The Perception of Form without Ambush, Benny Sato, “Culture Wars”: [31] Face in Richard Wright's Native Son”: [31] 579-586 497-504 Barker, Deborah E., “Visual Markers: Art and Giles, Freda Scott, “The Motion of Herstory: Mass Media in Alice Walker’s Meridian”: Three Plays by Pearl Cleage”: [31] 709-712 [31] 463-479 Harrison, Paul Carter, “ The Black Star Line: Bellamy, Lou, “The Colonization of Black Theatre”: [31] 587-590 The De-Mystification of Marcus Garvey”: Berger, Roger A., “ ‘The Black Dick’: Race, [31] 713-716 Sexuality, and Discourse in the L.A. Novels —, “The Crisis of Black Theatre Identity”: [31] of Walter Mosley”: [31] 281-294 567-578 Bernard, Louise, “The Musicality of Language: Harrison, Paul Carter, and Victor Leo Walker, Redefining ‘History’ in Suzan-Lori Parks’s II, “August Wilson’s Call: Notes from the The Death of the Last Black Man in the Editors”: [31] 565 Whole Entire World”: [31] 687-698 Hay, Samuel A., “Escaping the Tar-and- Bonnet, Michéle, “ ‘To take the sin out of slic- Feather Future of African American ing trees . . .’: The Law of the Tree in Theatre”: [31] 617-620 Beloved”: [31] 41-54 Jones, Carolyn M., “Traces and Cracks: Identity Bordelon, Pam, “New Tracks on Dust Tracks: and Narrative in Toni Morrison’s Jazz”: [31] Toward a Reassessment of the Life of Zora 481-495 Neale Hurston”: [31] 5-21 Joseph, May, “Alliances Across the Margin”: Breau, Elizabeth, “Incest and Intertextuality in [31] 595-599 Carolivia Herron’s Thereafter Johnnie”: [31] Loeb, Jeff, “MIA: African American 91-103 Autobiography of the Vietnam War”: [31] Brown, Abena Joan, “Developing Black 105-123 Performing Arts Institutions”: [31] 611-615 McCord, Keryl E., “The Challenge of Change”: Brown, Fahamisha Patricia, “And I Owe It All to Sterling Brown: The Theory and Practice [31] 601-609 of Black Literary Studies”: [31] 449-453 Meyerowitz, Lisa, “The Negro in Art Week: Campbell, Jennifer, “ ‘It’s a Time in the Land’: Defining the ‘New Negro’ Through Art Gendering Black Power and Sarah E. Exhibition”: [31] 75-89 Wright's Place in the Tradition of Black Monda, Kimberly, “Self-Delusion and Self- Women’s Writing”: [31] 211-222 Sacrifice in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand”: [31] Camper, Joyce A. A., “Sterling Brown: Maker 23-39 of Community in Academia”: [31] 437-441 Morales, Donald M., “Do Black Theatre Cannon, Elizabeth M., “Following the Traces of Institutions Translate into Great Drama?”: Female Desire in Toni Morrison’s Jazz”: [31] [31] 633- 637 235-247 Olmsted, Jane, “The Pull to Memory and the Davis, Clinton Turner, “Non-Traditional Language of Place in Paule Marshall’s The Casting”: [31] 591-594 Chosen Place, The Timeless People and Dawes, Kwame, “Reading Rice: A Local Praisesong for the Widow”: [31] 249-267 Habitation and a Name”: [31] 269-279 Olson, Barbara K., “ ‘Come-to-Jesus Stuff’ in Domina, Lynn, “ ‘Protection in My Mouf’: Self, James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain Voice, and Community in Zora Neale and The Amen Corner”: [31] 295-301 Hurston’s Dust Tracks on a Road and Palmer, Ronald D., “Memories of Sterling Mules and Men”: [31] 197-209 Euell, Kim, “Signifyin(g) Ritual: Subverting Brown”: [31] 433-435 Stereotypes, Salvaging Icons”: [31] 667-675 Pinder, Kymberly N., “ ‘Our Father, God; Our Feinstein, Sascha, “Epistrophies: Poems Brother, Christ; or are we bastard kin?’: Celebrating Thelonious Monk and His Images of Christ in African American Music”: [31] 55-59 Painting”: [31] 223-233 Gabbin, Joanne V., “Sterling Brown’s Poetic Sanders, Mark A., “Sterling A. Brown and the Voice: A Living Legacy”: [31] 423-431 Afro-Modern Moment”: [31] 393-397 Shannon, Sandra G., “A Transplant That Did Brown, Elaine, A Taste of Power: A Black Not Take: August Wilson’s Views on the Woman’s Story (Alice A. Deck): [31] 367-369 Great Migration”: [31] 659-666 Brown, Gita, Be I Whole (Kari J. Winter): [31] Simmons, Hortense E., “Sterling A. Brown’s 369-372 ‘Literary Chronicles’ ”: [31] 443-447 Brown, Wesley, Darktown Strutters (Eric Skinner, Beverly Lanier, “Sterling Brown: An Lott): [31] 169-172 Ethnographic Perspective”: [31] 417-422 Burton, Gail, and Diane Beckett, Muses (Jean Tate, Greg, “Generation Next, or The Future Young): [31] 723-725 of Bad Hair”: [31] 629-631 Butler, Robert j., ed., The Critical Response to Terry-Morgan, Elmo, “Noise/Funk. Fo’ Real Richard Wright (M. Lynn Weiss): [31] 337- Black Theatre on ‘Da Great White Way”: 339 [31] 677-686 Campbell, Bebe Moore, Brothers and Sisters Thomas, Lorenzo. “Authenticity and (Kari J. Winter): [31] 369-372 Elevation: Sterling Brown’s Theory of the Captain-Hidalgo, Yvonne, The Culture of Blues”: [31] 409-416 Fiction in the Works of Manuel Zapata Tidwell, John Edgar, “Two Writers Sharing: Olivella (Steven M. Bell): [31] 154-157 Sterling A. Brown, Robert Frost, and ‘In Carson, Clayborne, ed., The Papers of Martin Divés’ Dive’ ”: [31] 399-408 Luther King, Jr.: Volume II (Dolan Traylor, Eleanor W., R. Victoria Arana, and Hubbard): [31] 352-354 John M. Reilly, “ ‘Runnin’ Space’: The Cary, Lorene, The Price of a Child (Jan Continuing Legacy of Sterling Allen Furman): [31] 554-556 Brown”: [31] 389-392 Chappell, David L., Inside Agitators: White Walker, Victor Leo, II, “The National Black Southerners in the Civil Rights Movement Theatre Summit ‘On Golden Pond’— (Harry S. Ashmore): [31] 306-308 March 2-7, 1998”: [31] 621-627 Cleage, Pearl, Bourbon at the Border (Freda —., “The Old Settler is Far from Settled”: [31] Scott Giles): [31] 725-726 717-721 Condé, Maryse, Crossing the Mangrove Young, Jean, “The Re-Objectification and Re- (Arlene R. Keizer): [31] 175-176 Commodification of Saartjie Baartman in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Venus”: [31] 699-708 Connor, Kimberly Rae, Conversions and Visions in the Writings of African- American Women (Missy Dehn Interviews Kubitschek): [31] 335 Salaam, Kalamu ya, “Black Theatre—The Way da Costa, Emilia Viotti, Crowns of Glory, It Is: An Interview with Woodie King, Jr.”: Tears of Blood: The Demerara Slave [31] 647-658 Rebellion of 1823 (Edward L. Cox): [31] 138-140 Drama DeCosta-Willis, Miriam, ed., The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells (P. Gabrielle Moore, Kym, “The Date”: [31] 639-646 Foreman): [31] 363-365 Delany, Samuel R., Silent Interviews: On Reviews and Reviewers Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Abu-Jamal, Mumia, Live from Death Row Some Comics (Sandra Y. Govan): [31] 164- (Bruce Jackson): [31] 550-552 168 Anderson, Victor, Beyond Ontological Early, Gerald, Daughters: On Family and Blackness (Anthony B. Pinn): [31] 320-323 Fatherhood (Craig Werner): [31] 168-169 Aubert, Alvin, Harlem Wrestler and Other Edwards, Paul, and David Dabydeen, eds., Poems (Marilyn Nelson): [31] 373-375 Black Writers in Britain, 1760-1890 (Moira Baker, Houston A., Jr., Black Studies, Rap, and Ferguson): [31] 134-135 the Academy (Edward Pavlic): [31] 325-329 Edwards, Paul, and Polly Rewt, eds., Letters Banner-Haley, Charles T., Black Middle-Class of Ignatius Sancho (Keith A. Sandiford): Ideology and Culture, 1960-1990 (Roderick [31] 140-142 J. McDavis and Deborah A. McDavis): [31] Egerton, John, Speak Now Against the Day: 314-316 The Generation Before the Civil Rights Berlin, Edward A., King of Ragtime: Scott Movement in the South (David L. Joplin and His Era (Andrew Bartlett): [31] Chappell): [31] 128-129 157-159 Elam, Harry J., and Robert Alexander, eds., Branch, William B., ed., Crosswinds: An Colored Contradictions: An Anthology Anthology (Gus Edwards): [31] 740-741 (Robert Baum): [31] 732-735 AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW English, Karen, Neeny Coming, Neeny Going hooks, bell, Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood (Dianne Johnson-Feelings): [31] 556-557 (Evelyn E. Shockley): [31] 552-554 Farred, Grant, ed., Rethinking C.L.R. James Hurmence, Belinda, ed., We Lived in a Little (Nicole R. King): [31] 535-537 Cabin in the Yard (Linda Lovell): [31] 142- Floyd, Samuel A., Jr., The Power of Black 144 Music (Christopher Brooks): [31] 540-542 Hutchinson, George, The Harlem Renaissance Fox, Robert Elliot, Masters of the Drum in Black and White (Claudia Tate): [31] (Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure): [31] 520-23 517-518 Franklin, John Hope, and Genna Rae McNeil, Johnson, James Weldon, The Selected African Americans and the Living Writings of James Weldon Johnson, Constitution (Tanya Y. Hill): [31] 308-310 Volumes I-II, ed. Sondra Kathryn Wilson Gabbard, Krin, ed., Jazz Among the (Robert E. Fleming): [31] 351-352 Discourses (Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr.): [31] Julius, Lester, And All Our Wounds Forgiven 348-350 (Wilfred D. Samuels): [31] 176-182 —,ed., Representing Jazz (Guthrie P. Karrer, Wolfgang, and Barbara Puschmann- Ramsey, Jr.): [31] 348-350 Nalenz, eds., The African American Short Gerzina, Gretchen, Black London: Life Before Story 1970 to 1990: A Collection of Critical Emancipation (Anthony G. Barthelemy): Essays (Charles L. James): [31] 135-138 [31] 508-09 Leeming, David, James Baldwin: A Biography Gibbs, Mifflin Wistar, Shadow and Light: An (Fred L. Standley): [31] 339-341 Autobiography (Willard B. Gatewood): Leslie, Kent Anderson, Woman of Color, [31] 365-367 Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Gilroy, Paul, The Black Atlantic: Modernity Dickson, 1849-1893 (Nell Irvin Painter): and Double Consciousness (Peter [31] 538-539 Erickson): [31] 506-508 Mahone, Sydne, ed., Moon Marked and Gooding-Williams, Robert, ed., W. E. B. Du Touched by the Sun: Plays by African Bois: Of Cultural and Racial Identity (Jack American Women (Marta Effinger): [31] B. Moore): [31] 145-147 738-740 Gottschild, Brenda Dixon, Digging the Maynard, Robert C., with Dori J. Maynard, Africanist Presence in American Letters to My Children (Gerald B. Jordan): Performance, Dance and Other Contexts [31] 545-548 (James V. Hatch): [31] 539-540 McCarthy, Sheryl, Why Are the Heroes Graham, Maryemma, and Amritjit Singh, eds., Always White? (Gerald B. Jordan): [31] Conversations with Ralph Ellison (Bill 545-548 Lyne): (31] 531-533 McClendon, Jacquelyn Y., The Politics of Grimshaw, Anna, ed., Special Delivery: The Color in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset and Letters of C.L.R. James to Constance Webb Nella Larsen (Jennifer De Vere Brody): [31] (Nicole R. King): [31] 535-537 Harper, Donna Akiba Sullivan, Not So 528-529 Simple: The “Simple” Stories by Langston Miller, E. Ethelbert, ed., In Search of Color Hughes (Donald B. Gibson): [31] 529-531 Everywhere (Lorenzo Thomas): [31] 357- Harper, Phillip Brian, Framing the Margins: 359 The Social Logic of Postmodern Culture Mishkin, Tracy, ed., Literary Influence and (Charles Scruggs): [31] 130-132 African American Writers (George Harrison, Paul Carter, and Gus Edwards, eds., Hutchinson): [31] 523-525 Classic Plays from the Negro Ensemble Mullen, Bill, and Sherry Linkon, eds., Radical Company (James V. Hatch): [31] 356-357 Revisions (James Smethurst): [31] 518-520 Hatch, James V., and Ted Shine, eds., Black Nadel, Alan, ed., May All Your Fences Have Theatre USA: Plays by African Americans Gates: Essays on the Drama of August (Kathryn M. Ervin): [31] 735-737 Wiison (Leslie Catherine Sanders): [31] Haymes, Stephen Nathan, Race, Culture, and 151-154 the City: A Pedagogy for Black Urban Olaniyan, Tejumola, Scars of Conquest/Masks Struggle (Houston A. Baker, Jr.): [31] 125- of Resistance (George Woodyard): [31] 323- 128 325; (William W. Cook): [31] 729-732 Henderson, Errol Anthony, Afrocentrism and Peach, Linden, Toni Morrison (Susan L. World Politics (Molefi Kete Asante): [31] Blake): [31] 533-34 505-506 Pereira, Kim, August Wilson and the African- Henderson, Mae, ed., Borders, Boundaries, American Odyssey (Sandra G. Shannon): and Frames (Cheryl A. Wall): [31] 509-511 [31] 343-345 INDEX TO VOLUME 31 Peterson, Carla L., African-American Women Wade-Gayles, Gloria, ed., My Soul is a Speakers and Writers in the North 1830- Witness: African American Women’s 1880 (Nina Baym): [31] 333-334 Spirituality (Carla L. Peterson): [31] 355- Phillips, Caryl, Crossing the River (Clarence 356 Major): [31] 172-175 Walker, Alice, and Pratibha Parmar, Warrior Pinn, Anthony B., Why Lord?: Suffering and Marks (Lovalerie King): [31] 542-545 Wall, Cheryl A., Women of the Harlem Evil in Black Theology (Dwight N. Renaissance (Farah Jasmine Griffin): [31] Hopkins): [31] 514-516 330-332 Potkay, Adam, and Sandra Burr, eds., Black Watson, Steven, The Harlem Renaissance: Atlantic Writers of the 18th Century Hub of African-American Culture, 1920- (Anthony G. Barthelemy): [31] 525-526 1930 (John McCluskey, Jr.): [31] 329-330 Prahlad, Sw. Anand, African-American Wiegman, Robyn, American Anatomies Proverbs in Context (Daryl Cumber (Michael Bérubé): [31] 317-320 Dance): [31] 526-528 Williams, Patricia J., The Rooster’s Egg: On Rampersad, Arnold, ed., Richard Wright: A the Persistence of Prejudice (Adrien Collection of Critical Essays (Virginia Katherine Wing): [31] 548-549 Whatley Smith): [31] 148-151 Woods, Paula L., ed., Spooks, Spies, and Sanchez, Sonia, Wounded in the House of a Private Eyes (Robert E. Skinner): [31] 336- Friend (Joyce Ann Joyce): [31] 376-378 337 Schafer, Judith Kelleher, Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana Fiction (Gwendolyn Midlo Hall): [31] 311-312 Cruz, Ricardo Cortez, “Up”: [31] 455-462 Schuyler, George S., Ethiopian Stories (Lillie Jones): [31] 182-183 Slade, John Eaves, But IA m Too a Black Poetry Cartoonist! . . . Really! (Gerald B. Jordan): Gaither, Renoir, “Token”: [31] 73 (31] 545-548 Jeffers, Honorée F., “Only the Yellow,” “The Smith, Anna Deavere, Twilight: Los Angeles, Light Brigade”: [31] 64-65 1992 (Elizabeth Brown-Guillory): [31] 372- Scrivner, Jay, “Suasive Tuesday”: [31] 66-67 373 Weaver, Michael S., “Thelonious,” “The Smith, Roger, A Huey P. Newton Story Doves,” “The Poets”: [31] 61-63 (Victor Leo Walker, II): [31] 727-728 Williams, Lana C., “A’she”: [31] 68-72 Smith, Valerie, ed., New Essays on Song of Solomon (Denise Heinze): [31] 159-161 Principal Subjects Spears, Alan, ed., Fast Track, Full Volume: An Abu-Jamal, Mumia: [31] 550-552 Anthology (Herbert Woodward Martin): —Live from Death Row: [31] 550-552 [31] 360-362 Alexander, Robert: [31] 668-670 Steinberg, Stephen, The Retreat from Racial —lI Ain’t Yo’ Uncle [31] 668-670 Justice in American Thought and Policy Aubert, Alvin: [31] 373-375 (Joe R. Feagin): [31] 313-314 —Harlem Wrestler and Other Poems: [31] Stevenson, Brenda E., Life in Black and White 373-375 (Robert McColley): [31] 512-514 Baldwin, James: [31] 295-301, 339-341 Sundquist, Eric J., Cultural Contexts for Ralph —The Amen Corner. [31] 295-301 Ellison’s Invisible Man (John M. Reilly): —Go Tell It on the Mountain: [31] 295-301 [31] 342-343 Bearden, Romare: [31] 228-229 Tanner, Jo A., The Odyssey of the Early Black Brown, Elaine: [31] 367-369 Dramatic Actress (Joyce Meier): [31] 345- —aA Taste of Power. [31] 367-369 Brown, Gita: [31] 369-372 348 —Be I Whole: [31] 369-372 Taylor-Guthrie, Danille, Conversations with Brown, Michael Henry: [31] 671-672 Toni Morrison (Carolyn M. Jones): [31] —King of Coons: [31] 671-672 161-164 Brown, Sterling A.: [31] 389-453 Ukadike, Nwachukwu Frank, Black African —“Odyssey of Big Boy”: [31] 394-397 Cinema (Suzanne H. MacRae): [31] 132-134 Brown, Wesley: [31] 169-172 Vlach, John Michael, The Architecture of —Darktown Strutters: [31] 169-172 Plantation Slavery (Henry John Drewal): Burton, Gail, and Diane Beckett: [31] 723-725 [31] 303- 306 —Muses: [31] 723-725 AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW Campbell, Bebe Moore: [31] 369-372 Monk, Thelonious: [31] 55-59 —Brothers and Sisters: [31] 369-372 Morrison, Toni: [31] 41-54, 159-164, 235-247, Cary, Lorene: [31] 554-556 481-495, 533-534 —The Price of a Child: [31] 554-556 —Beloved: [31] 41-54 Clarke, Brenda, and Gienda Dickerson: [31] —Jazz: [31] 235-247, 481-495 672-673 —Song of Solomon: [31] 159-161 —Re/membering Aunt Jemima: [31] 672-673 Mosley, Walter: [31] 281-294 Cleage, Pearl: [31] 709-712, 725-726 —Black Betty: [31] 281-294 -—-Bourbon at the Border. [31] 725-726 —Devil in a Blue Dress: [31] 281-294 Condé, Maryse: [31] 175-176 —A Red Death: [31] 281-294 —cCrossing the Mangrove: [31] 175-176 —White Butterfly: [31] 281-294 Daly, James: [31] 110-115 Motley, Archibald, Jr.: [31] 224-225 —aA Hero’s Welcome: [31] 110-115 National Black Theatre Summit: [31] 621-627 Delany, Samuel R.: [31] 164-168 Negro Ensemble Company: [31] 633-637 Dickson, Amanda America: [31] 538-539 Negro in Art Week [art exhibition]: [31] 75-89 Douglas, Aaron: [31] 231 Olivella, Manuel Zapata: [31] 154-157 Du Bois, W. E. B.: [31] 145-147 Parks, Suzan-Lori: [31] 687-708 Early, Gerald: [31] 106-169 —The Death of the Last Black Man in the —Daughters: [31] 168-169 Whole Entire World: [31] 687-698 Ellison, Ralph: [31] 342-343, 531-533 — Venus: [31] 699-708 —Invisible Man: [31] 342-343 Phillips, Caryl: [31] 172-174 English, Karen: [31] 556-557 —Crossing the River. [31] 172-174 —Neeny Coming, Neeny Going: [31] 556-557 Redwood, John Henry: [31] 717-721 ETA Creative Arts Foundation: [31] 611-615 —The Old Settler. [31] 717-721 Fauset, Jessie: [31] 528-529 Robinson, Matt: [31] 670-671 Finney, Nikky: [31] 269-279 —The Confessions of Stepin Fetchit: [31] 670- —Rice: [31] 269-279 671 Flemister, Fred: [31] 232 Sanchez, Sonia: [31] 376-378 Frost, Robert: [31] 399-408 — Wounded in the House of a Friend: [31] —‘In Divés’ Dive”: [31] 399-408 376-378 Gibbs, Mifflin Wistar: [31] 365-367 Sancho, Ignatius: [31] 140-142 —Shadow and Light: [31] 365-367 Schuyler, George S.: [31] 182-183 Herron, Carolivia: [31] 91-103 —Ethiopian Stories: [31] 182-183 —Thereafter Johnnie: [31] 91-103 Smith, Anna Deavere: [31] 372-373 hooks, bell: [31] 552-554 —Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992: [31] 372-373 —Bone Black: [31] 552-554 Smith, Charles: [31] 713-716 Hughes, Langston: [31] 529-531 —The Black Star Line: [31] 713-716 Hurston, Zora Neale: [31] 5-21, 197-209 Smith, Roger Guenveur: [31] 727-728 — Dust Tracks on a Road: [31] 5-21, 197-209 —WMules and Men: [31] 197-209 —A Huey P. Newton Story: [31] 727-728 James, C.L.R.: [31] 535-537 Tanner, Henry O.: [31] 229-230 Johnson, James Weldon: [31] 351-352 Vietnam War autobiographies: [31] 103-123 Johnson, William H.: [31] 226-228 Walker, Alice: [31] 463-479 Joplin, Scott: [31] 157-159 —Meridian: [31] 463-479 King, Martin Luther, Jr.: [31] 352-354 Wells, Ida B.: [31] 363-365 King, Woodie, Jr.: [31] 647-658 Whitmore, Terry: [31] 116-120 Larsen, Nella: [31] 23-39, 528-529 —Memphis—Nam—Sweden: [31] 116-120 —Quicksand: [31] 23-39 Wilson, August: [31] 151-154, 343-345, 565, Lawrence, Jacob: [31] 225-226 579-590, 595-599, 659-666 Leslie, Marsha L.: [31] 673-674 —NMa Rainey’s Black Bottom: [31] 659-666 —The Trial of One Short-Sighted Woman: —Seven Guitars: [31] 659-666 [31] 673-674 Wolfe, George C.: [31] 677-686 Lester, Julius: [31] 176-182 —Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk: [31] —And All Our Wounds Forgiven: [31] 176-182 677-686 Marshall, Paule: [31] 249-267 Wright, Richard: [31] 148-151, 337-339, 497-504 —The Chosen Place, The Timeless People: —Native Son: [31] 497-504 [31] 249-259 Wright, Sarah E.: [31] 211-222 —Praisesong for the Widow: [31] 259-265 —This Child’s Gonna Live: [31] 211-222 INDEX TO VOLUME 31