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Black Orpheus : music in African American fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison /
In twentieth-century African American fiction, music has been elevated to the level of religion primarily because of its power as a medium of freedom. This collection explores literary invocations of music.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Garland Pub.,
2000.
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| Colección: | Garland reference library of the humanities ;
vol. 2097. Garland reference library of the humanities. Border crossings ; v. 9. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Series editor's foreword / Daniel Albright
- Introduction: the agency of sound in African American fiction / Saadi A. Simawe
- Singing the unsayable: theorizing music in Dessa Rose / Jacquelyn A. Fox-Good
- Claude McKay: music, sexuality, and literary cosmopolitanism / Tom Lutz
- Black moves, white way, every body's blues: orphic power in Langston Hughes's The ways of white folks / Jane Olmsted
- Black and blue: the female body of blues writing in Jean Toomer, Toni Morrison, and Gayl Jones / Katherine Boutry
- That old black magic? Gender and music in Ann Petry's fiction / Johanna X.K. Garvey
- "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing": jazz's many uses for Toni Morrison / Alan J. Rice
- Shange and her three sisters "sing a liberation song": variations on the orphic theme / Maria V. Johnson
- Nathaniel Mackey's unit structures / Joseph Allen
- Shamans of song: music and the politics of culture in Alice Walker's early fiction / Saadi A. Simawe.