Playing the changes : from Afro-modernism to the jazz impulse

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Davis Library (8th floor)

Call Number
PS153.B53 W38 1994
Status
Available

Stone Center Library

Call Number
PS153.B53 W38 1994 c. 2
Status
Available

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Summary

Offers several readings of Baldwin, Baraka, Brooks, Morrison, Walker, Wilson, and Wright, while emphasizing underrecognized writers, such as Ed Bullins, Charles Chesnutt, Samuel Delany, Leon Forrest, Gayl Jones, Adrienne Kennedy, and Melvin B Tolson.

Contents

  • Acknowledgments p. xi
  • Introduction: (Re) Phrasings and the Study of African-American Literature p. xv
  • Part 1 Afro-Modernist Dialogues
  • 1 The Framing of Charles W. Chesnutt p. 3
  • 2 Endurance and Excavation: Afro-American Responses to Faulkner p. 27
  • 3 The Brier Patch as (Post) modernist Myth: Morrison, Barthes, and Tar Baby As-Is p. 63
  • 4 On the Ends of Afro-Modernist Autobiography p. 84
  • Part 2 Studies in African-American Poetics
  • 5 Black Dialectics: Kennedy, Bullins, Knight, Dumas, Lorde p. 103
  • 6 Black Blues in the City: The Voices of Gwendolyn Brooks p. 142
  • 7 Blues for T. S. Eliot and Langston Hughes: Melvin B. Tolson's Afro-Modernist Aesthetic p. 162
  • Part 3 Playing the Changes: Gospel, Blues, Jazz
  • 8 Bigger's Blues: Native Son and the Articulation of Afro-American Modernism p. 183
  • 9 James Baldwin: Politics and the Gospel Impulse p. 212
  • 10 Leon Forrest and the AACM: The Jazz Impulse and the Chicago Renaissance p. 241
  • 11 The Burden and the Binding Song: August Wilson's Neoclassical Jazz p. 263
  • Epilogue: Improvisations toward a New Phrasing: West Afrocentrism, Meta-Funk, and the Interiors of Jazz p. 288
  • Works Cited p. 305
  • Index p. 317

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