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Briefs


The Multithreaded Literary Briefs (Briefs) includes interrelated commentary about African American fiction composed by a team of literature scholar-connectors. This commentary highlights relationships between various novels and novelists that constitute an associated network of ideas and focal subjects.




Multi-threaded Literary Briefs: An Introduction

Biographical Sketches: An Introduction

Key Scenes: An Introduction

Keywords: An Introduction

Novel Adaptations: An Introduction

Book & Literary History: An Introduction

Literary Data Work: An Introduction

Style & Structure: An Introduction

Lists: An Introduction

Reading & Teaching Fiction: An Introduction

Black Novel Dedications

A Brief on the Multi-threaded Literary Briefs

Neo-Slave Narratives: Gallery

Antebellum Slave Narrative

Barbara Christian, Black women novelists, and Berkeley

Multigenerational Novels

Multiperspective Novels

Neo-Slave Narrative

Contemporary Narratives of Slavery

Racial Passing

The Flying African

Trope of the Tragic Mulatta

The question white folks could not stop asking Toni Morrison

Historical Fiction

The Battle Royal scene from Invisible Man

The Silent Generation (1928 - 1945)

The Greatest Generation (1901 - 1927)

Baby Boomers (1946 - 1964)

Generation X (1965 - 1980)

Southern-born writers

A checklist of Walter Mosley's books

Afrofuturism

Teaching Morrison Beyond Fiction

Award-Winning Fiction

A Checklist of Octavia Butler's Books

A Checklist of Marc Olden's Books

Reading The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead

The Epistolary Structure of The Color Purple

A Checklist of Neo-Slave Narratives

The Literary Data Gallery

A Brief History on How Pauline Hopkins Published 3 Novels in 3 Years

A Checklist of Toni Morrison's Works

A Checklist of Colson Whitehead's Works

25 Novels Adapted to Films and Miniseries

Pauline Hopkins and a Legacy of Fiction Publishing

The Process of Literary Data Work