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Swinging the Vernacular: Jazz and African American Modernist Literature: Studies in African American History and Culture

Autor Michael Borshuk
en Limba Engleză Hardback – oct 2005
Exploring twentieth-century African American writing in light of critical reconsiderations of American modernism, this book focuses on the poetry of Langston Hughes and Michael S Harper, and the fiction of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray.
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ISBN-13: 9780415974479
ISBN-10: 041597447X
Pagini: 252
Dimensiuni: 155 x 234 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Routledge
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Cuprins

Acknowledgments

Introduction:
The Language of Jazz
as American Culture Becomes Modern

Chapter 1:
Langston Hughes and the First Book of Jazz

Chapter 2:
Thriving on a Riff:
Bebop and Langston Hughes's Montage of a Dream Deferred

Chapter 3:
Riffing on the Lower Frequencies:
Dialogism, Intertextuality, and Bebop in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

Chapter 4:
"Here Where Coltrane Is":
Jazz, Cultural Memory, and Political Aesthetics
in the Poetry of Michael S. Harper

Chapter 5:
Albert Murray Brings It On Home:
Revisioning Black Modernism in Train Whistle Guitar

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Notes

Works Cited

Index

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This book looks at the influence of jazz on the development of African American modernist literature over the 20th century, with a particular attention to the social and aesthetic significance of stylistic changes in the music.