UID:
almafu_9958287987102883
Umfang:
1 online resource (304 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-135-57983-0
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1-280-40735-2
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9786610407354
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0-203-90440-0
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0-203-90441-9
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:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-138-00177-5
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-8153-3123-1
Sprache:
Englisch
