Examining the surrealist novels of several contemporary writers, AfroSurrealism argues that we have entered a new and exciting era of the black novel, one that is more invested than ever before in the cross-sections of science, technology, history, folklore, and myth.

Rochelle Spencer is co-editor of All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color.

Introduction: AfroSurrealism: A New Black Surrealism 1. Mat Johnson's Pym and Helen Oyeyemi's boy snow bird: AfroSurrealism, Magical Realism, and the Psychology of Reimagining the Past 2. Edwidge Danticat's Claire of the Sea Light, Chris Abani's The Secret History of Las Vegas, and the AfroSurreal Grotesque 3. AfroSurreal and Afrofuturistic Cinematic Storytelling: Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Colson Whitehead's Zone One 4. The Postmodern Fables of Victor LaValle's Big Machine and Summer Brenner's Oakland Tales 5. 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 Moment Appendix