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Ghetto images in twentieth-century American literature : writing apartheid /
In this comprehensive work, Tyrone R. Simpson, II, explores how six American writers - Anzia Yezierska, Michael Gold, Hubert Selby Jr., Chester Himes, Gloria Naylor, and John Edgar Wideman - have artistically responded to the racialization of U.S. frostbelt cities in the twentieth century. By using...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Future of minority studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Living for the City: Reading Twentieth Century Ghettoes in Postmodern Times
- "The Love of Colour in Me": Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers (1928) and the Space of White Racial Manufacture
- "To Make a Man Out of You: Masculine Fantasies and White Failure in Michael Gold's Jews Without Money (1930)"
- "Jammed in Hemispherical Blackness": Looking Through Campy Transvestitism in Hubert Selby Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn€
- "'Enough to Make a Body Riot': Chester Himes, Melancholia, and the Postmodern Renovation"
- "In a World with No Address": Rescuing Ghetto Patriarchy in The Women of Brewster Place
- And the Arc of His Witness Explained Nothing: Black Flanerie and Traumatic Photorealism in Wideman's Two Cities
- Conclusion: Beyond the Manichean Literary Ghetto?
- Machine generated contents note:
- Introduction: Living for the City: Reading Twentieth Century Ghettoes in Postmodern Times * Chapter 1: "The Love of Colour in Me": Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers (1928) and the Space of White Racial Manufacture * Chapter 2: "To Make a Man Out of You: Masculine Fantasies and White Failure in Michael Gold's Jews Without Money (1930)" * Chapter 3 "Jammed in Hemispherical Blackness": Looking Through Campy Transvestitism in Hubert Selby Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn * Chapter 4: "'Enough to Make a Body Riot': Chester Himes, Melancholia, and the Postmodern Renovation" * Chapter 5 "In a World with No Address": Rescuing Ghetto Patriarchy in The Women of Brewster Place * Chapter 6: And the Arc of His Witness Explained Nothing: Black Flanerie and Traumatic Photorealism in Wideman's Two Cities * Conclusion: Beyond the Manichean Literary Ghetto?