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Signs and cities : Black literary postmodernism /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 modernity and of print literacy. Dubey shows how black novelists from the last three decades have reconsidered the modern urban legacy and thus articulated a distinctly African-American strain of postmodernism. She argues that novelists such as Octavia Butler, Samuel Delany, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 284 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-276) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226167282 0226167283 9780226167268 0226167267 9780226167275 0226167275 1281125504 9781281125507 |