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Folklore in New World Black Fiction : Writing and the Oral Tradition Aesthetics /
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Kinds of Blue : The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative /
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…-- The remembering song : toward an aesthetic of literary jazz in Sidney Bechet's Treat it Gentle -- "Swing it, sister" : jazz time in Ann Petry's The Street -- Boping billy clubs, burning cadillacs, and wigged-out aliens : jazz and violence in short stories by Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, and Amiri Baraka -- Kinds of blue : Toni Morrison, Hans Janowitz, and the jazz aesthetic -- Coda: Waiting to be the music : hybridity, afro-modernism, and critical practice.…”
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After winter the art and life of Sterling A. Brown /
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Spectacular blackness the cultural politics of the Black power movement and the search for a Black aesthetic /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…, Black power culture, visual culture, and the Black Panther Party -- Radical chic, affiliation, identification, and the Black Panther Party -- "We waitin' on you", Black power, Black intellectuals, and the search to define a Black aesthetic -- "People get ready!", music, revolutionary nationalism, and the Black arts movement -- "You better watch this good shit!"…”
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Signs and cities Black literary postmodernism /
Published 2003Table of Contents: “…The postmodern moment in Black literary and cultural studies -- Books of life: postmodern uses of print literacy -- Urban writing as voyeurism: literature in the age of spectacle -- Reading as listening: the Southern folk aesthetic -- Reading as mediation: urbanity in the age of information.…”
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Chicago's new Negroes modernity, the great migration, & Black urban life /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…: consumer culture and intellectual life reconsidered -- Mapping the Black metropolis: a cultural geography of the stroll -- Making do: beauty, enterprise, and the "makeover" of race womanhood -- Theaters of war: spectacles, amusements, and the emergence of urban film culture -- The birth of two nations: White fears, Black jeers, and the rise of a "race film" consciousness -- Sacred tastes: the migrant aesthetics and authority of gospel music -- The sporting life: recreation, self-reliance, and competing visions of race manhood -- Epilogue. …”
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