Cross-rhythms : jazz aesthetics in African-American literature /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Omry, Keren
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2008.
Colección:Continuum literary studies.
Temas:
1900-1999
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Jazz > Philosophy and aesthetics.
Jazz in literature.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Jazz > Philosophie et esthétique.
Jazz dans la littérature.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
American literature > African American authors
Jazz in literature
Jazz > Philosophy and aesthetics
Literatur
Jazz > Motiv
Literature.
Jazz > History and criticism.
Amerikansk litteratur > historia > 1900-talet.
Amerikansk litteratur > afro-amerikanska författare > historia.
Jazz > teori, filosofi.
Jazz i litteraturen.
Schwärze
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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