Signs and cities : Black literary postmodernism /

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Signs and Cities is the first book to consider what it means to speak of a postmodern moment in African-American literature. Dubey argues that for African-American studies, postmodernity best names a period, beginning in the early 1970s, marked by acute disenchantment with the promises of urban mode...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dubey, Madhu
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2003.
Temas:
1900-1999
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Postmodernism (Literature) > United States.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
City and town life in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs noirs américains > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Postmodernisme (Littérature) > États-Unis.
Noirs américains > Vie intellectuelle.
Vie urbaine dans la littérature.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
African Americans in literature
African Americans > Intellectual life
American literature
American literature > African American authors
City and town life in literature
Postmodernism (Literature)
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The postmodern moment in Black literary and cultural studies
  • Books of life: postmodern uses of print literacy
  • Urban writing as voyeurism: literature in the age of spectacle
  • Reading as listening: the Southern folk aesthetic
  • Reading as mediation: urbanity in the age of information.

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