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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Introduction 1
- Part One/Thesis One. The Birth of the Bureau, Coupled with the Birth of J. Edgar Hoover, Ensured the FBI’s Attention to African American Literature 25
- Part Two/Thesis Two. The FBI’s Aggressive Filing and Long Study of African American Writers Was Tightly Bound to the Agency’s Successful Evolution under Hoover 59
- Part Three/Thesis Three. The FBI Is Perhaps the Most Dedicated and Influential Forgotten Critic of African American Literature 127
- Part Four/Thesis Four. The FBI Helped to Define the Twentieth-Century Black Atlantic, Both Blocking and Forcing Its Flows 175
- Part Five/Thesis Five. Consciousness of FBI Ghostreading Fills a Deep and Characteristic Vein of African American Literature 215
- Appendix: FOIA Requests for FBI Files on African American Authors Active from 1919 to 1972 277
- Notes 285
- Works Cited 315
- Index 343
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Introduction 1
- Part One/Thesis One. The Birth of the Bureau, Coupled with the Birth of J. Edgar Hoover, Ensured the FBI’s Attention to African American Literature 25
- Part Two/Thesis Two. The FBI’s Aggressive Filing and Long Study of African American Writers Was Tightly Bound to the Agency’s Successful Evolution under Hoover 59
- Part Three/Thesis Three. The FBI Is Perhaps the Most Dedicated and Influential Forgotten Critic of African American Literature 127
- Part Four/Thesis Four. The FBI Helped to Define the Twentieth-Century Black Atlantic, Both Blocking and Forcing Its Flows 175
- Part Five/Thesis Five. Consciousness of FBI Ghostreading Fills a Deep and Characteristic Vein of African American Literature 215
- Appendix: FOIA Requests for FBI Files on African American Authors Active from 1919 to 1972 277
- Notes 285
- Works Cited 315
- Index 343