Umfang:
Online-Ressource (xxv, 275 p)
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music
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0815331231
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0203904400
Serie:
Garland reference library of the humanities v. 2097
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Series Editor's Foreword; Introduction: The Agency of Sound in African American Fiction; Singing the Unsayable: Theorizing Music in Dessa Rose; Claude McKay: Music, Sexuality, and Literary Cosmopolitanism; Black Moves, White Ways, Every Body's Blues: Orphic Power in Langston Hughes's The Ways of White Folks; Black and Blue: The Female Body of Blues Writing in Jean Toomer, Toni Morrison, and Gayl Jones; That Old Black Magic? Gender and Music in Ann Petry's Fiction
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~It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing~: Jazz's Many Uses for Toni MorrisonShange and Her Three Sisters ~Sing a Liberation Song~: Variations on the Orphic Theme; Nathaniel Mackey's Unit Structures; Shamans of Song: Music and the Politics of Culture in Alice Walker's Early Fiction; Contributors; Index of Names
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780815331230
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Black Orpheus : Music in African American Fiction from the Harlem
Sprache:
Englisch
