| Description |
1 online resource (189 pages). |
| Series |
Continuum literary studies series |
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Continuum literary studies.
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| Note |
Includes discography (pages 185). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-184) and index. |
| Contents |
Blues notes : a discourse of race in the poetry of Langston Hughes, in Their eyes were watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, and in Corregidora, by Gayl Jones -- Bebop spoken here : performativity in Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison -- Modes of experience : modal jazz and the authority of experience in Ishmael Reed's Mumbo jumbo, Toni Morrison's The bluest eye and Song of Solomon -- Free jazz : postracialism and collectivity in Toni Morrison's 'Recitatif' and Paradise. |
| Summary |
Cross-Rhythms investigates the literary uses and effects of blues and jazz in African-American literature of the twentieth century. Texts by James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Gayl Jones, Toni Morrison and Ishmael Reed variously adopt or are consciously informed by a jazz aesthetic; this aesthetic becomes part of a strategy of ethnic identification and provides a medium with which to consider the legacy of trauma in African-American history. These diverse writers are all thoroughly immersed in a socio-cultural context and a literary aesthetic that embodies shift. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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Jazz -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Jazz in literature.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
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American literature -- African American authors.
(OCoLC)fst00807114
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Jazz in literature. (OCoLC)fst00982203
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Jazz -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
(OCoLC)fst01751455
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Literatur.
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Jazz <Motiv>.
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Schwarze.
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United States.
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Omry, Keren. Cross-rhythms. London ; New York : Continuum, ©2008 9780826497437 (DLC) 2009275471 (OCoLC)253226214 |
| ISBN |
9781441179616 (electronic bk.) |
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1441179615 (electronic bk.) |
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