| Description |
265 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Yoshinobu Hakutani and Robert Butler -- The city as liberating space in Life and times of Frederick Douglass / Robert Butler -- The Harlem Renaissance city : its multi-illusionary dimension / Donald B. Gibson -- The city and Richard Wright's quest for freedom / Yoshinobu Hakutani -- "No street numbers in Accra" : Richard Wright's African cities / Jack B. Moore -- Stadtluft macht frei! : African-American writers and Berlin (1892-1932) / Eberhard Brüning -- Richard Wright's Paris / Michel Fabre -- Selves of the city, selves of the South : the city in the fiction of William Attaway and Willard Motley / John Conder -- The city as psychological frontier in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man and Charles Johnson's Faith and the good thing / Robert Butler -- "But the city was real" : James Baldwin's literary milieu / Fred L. Standley -- If the street could talk : James Baldwin's search for love and understanding / Yoshinobu Hakutani -- Metonymy and synecdoche : the rhetoric of the city in Toni Morrison's Jazz / Jocelyn Chadwick-Joshua -- The wall and the mirror in the promised land : the city in the novels of Gloria Naylor / Michael F. Lynch -- The sensory assault of the city in Ann Petry's The street / Larry R. Andrews -- John A. Williams : the black American narrative and the city / Priscilla R. Ramsey -- The urban pastoral and labored ease of Samuel R. Delany / Donald M. Hassler -- The inner and outer city : a study of the landscape of the imagination in black drama / Robert L. Tener. |
| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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City and town life in literature.
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Cities and towns in literature.
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African Americans in literature.
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| Indexed Term |
English literature By Black persons |
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United States |
| Added Author |
Hakutani, Yoshinobu, 1935-
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Butler, Robert, 1942-
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| Added Title |
The city in African American literature |
| ISBN |
0838635652 alkaline paper |
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