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Kinds of Blue : The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative / by Grandt, Jürgen E., 1968-

Table 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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Kinds of Blue : The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative / by Grandt, Jürgen E., 1968-

Table 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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Shaping Words to Fit the Soul : The Southern Ritual Grounds of Afro-Modernism / by Grandt, Jürgen E., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…A life and power far beyond the letter : the Afro-modernism of life and times of Frederick Douglass -- Shaping words to fit the soul : Afro-modernism and the breakdown of communication in Jean Toomer's Cane -- Roll call : Richard Wright's "Long black song" and the betrayal of music -- Blues and the abstract truth : the Southern groove continuum from W.C. …”
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Shaping Words to Fit the Soul : The Southern Ritual Grounds of Afro-Modernism / by Grandt, Jürgen E., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…A life and power far beyond the letter : the Afro-modernism of life and times of Frederick Douglass -- Shaping words to fit the soul : Afro-modernism and the breakdown of communication in Jean Toomer's Cane -- Roll call : Richard Wright's "Long black song" and the betrayal of music -- Blues and the abstract truth : the Southern groove continuum from W.C. …”
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The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom / by Pugh, Tison

Table of Contents: “…Feminism, Homosexuality, and Blue-Collar Perversity in Roseanne --…”
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The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom / by Pugh, Tison

Table of Contents: “…Feminism, Homosexuality, and Blue-Collar Perversity in Roseanne --…”
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The Worlds of Langston Hughes : Modernism and Translation in the Americas / by Kutzinski, Vera M., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : in others' words : translation and survival -- Nomad heart : heterolingual autobiographical -- Southern exposures : Hughes in Spanish -- Buenos Aires blues : modernism in the creole city -- Havana vernaculars : the Cuba Libre project -- Back in the USSA : Joe McCarthy's mistranslations.…”
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The Worlds of Langston Hughes : Modernism and Translation in the Americas / by Kutzinski, Vera M., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : in others' words : translation and survival -- Nomad heart : heterolingual autobiographical -- Southern exposures : Hughes in Spanish -- Buenos Aires blues : modernism in the creole city -- Havana vernaculars : the Cuba Libre project -- Back in the USSA : Joe McCarthy's mistranslations.…”
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"In the Light of Likeness - Transformed" : The Literary Art of Leon Forrest / by Williams, Dana A., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…: Black cultural traditions and Leon Forrest's healing narratives -- The meteor in the man-The artistic light of Leon Forrest -- To survival and beyond: the journey motif and transcendence in There is a Tree More Ancient than Eden -- "Salvation is the issue": Black music as metaphor in The Bloodworth Orphans -- "Learn it to the Younguns": Bearing witness to the blues in Two Wings to Veil My Face -- Though I am many, I am yet still one: reinvention in Divine Days -- "The transformation of grief": self-invention and survival in Meteor in the Madhouse.…”
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"In the Light of Likeness - Transformed" : The Literary Art of Leon Forrest / by Williams, Dana A., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…: Black cultural traditions and Leon Forrest's healing narratives -- The meteor in the man-The artistic light of Leon Forrest -- To survival and beyond: the journey motif and transcendence in There is a Tree More Ancient than Eden -- "Salvation is the issue": Black music as metaphor in The Bloodworth Orphans -- "Learn it to the Younguns": Bearing witness to the blues in Two Wings to Veil My Face -- Though I am many, I am yet still one: reinvention in Divine Days -- "The transformation of grief": self-invention and survival in Meteor in the Madhouse.…”
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Theatrical Jazz : Performance, Àṣẹ, and the Power of the Present Moment / by Jones, Omi Osun Joni L., 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Troubling jazz, Abínibí, Black theatre for the twenty-first century -- The ensemble, Ẹgbẹ́, community -- The marrow : Laurie Carlos -- The blue note : Daniel Alexander Jones -- The roots : Sharon Bridgforth -- The break, Awo, process -- The bridge, Áṣẹ, transformation -- Appendix I. …”
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Theatrical Jazz : Performance, Àṣẹ, and the Power of the Present Moment / by Jones, Omi Osun Joni L., 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Troubling jazz, Abínibí, Black theatre for the twenty-first century -- The ensemble, Ẹgbẹ́, community -- The marrow : Laurie Carlos -- The blue note : Daniel Alexander Jones -- The roots : Sharon Bridgforth -- The break, Awo, process -- The bridge, Áṣẹ, transformation -- Appendix I. …”
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Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies : Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance / by Wilson, James F.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: "It's getting dark on old Broadway" -- "Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer": parties, performances, and privacy in the "other" Harlem Renaissance(s) -- "Harlem on my mind": New York's black belt on the Great White Way -- "That's the kind of gal I am": drag balls, "sexual perversion," and David Belasco's Lulu Belle -- "Hottentot potentates": the potent and hot performances of Florence Mills and Ethel Waters -- "In my well of loneliness": Gladys Bentley's Bulldykin' blues -- Conclusion: "you've seen Harlem at its best".…”
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Imagining Minds : The Neuro-Aesthetics of Austen, Eliot, and Hardy / by Young, Kay, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the integrated mind -- Jane Austen and self-consciousness -- "A mind lively and at ease" : imagination and Emma -- "You pierce my soul" : feeling embodied and persuasion -- George Eliot and other-consciousness -- "A voice like music" : the problem of other minds and Middlemarch -- "Beloved ideas made flesh" : the embodied mind and Daniel Deronda -- Thomas Hardy and nonintrospective consciousness -- "Now I am melancholy mad" : mood and Jude the obscure -- "That blue narcotic haze" : dreams, dissociation, and Tess of the d'Urbervilles -- Coda : the neurology of narrative.…”
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Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies : Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance / by Wilson, James F.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: "It's getting dark on old Broadway" -- "Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer": parties, performances, and privacy in the "other" Harlem Renaissance(s) -- "Harlem on my mind": New York's black belt on the Great White Way -- "That's the kind of gal I am": drag balls, "sexual perversion," and David Belasco's Lulu Belle -- "Hottentot potentates": the potent and hot performances of Florence Mills and Ethel Waters -- "In my well of loneliness": Gladys Bentley's Bulldykin' blues -- Conclusion: "you've seen Harlem at its best".…”
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Imagining Minds : The Neuro-Aesthetics of Austen, Eliot, and Hardy / by Young, Kay, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the integrated mind -- Jane Austen and self-consciousness -- "A mind lively and at ease" : imagination and Emma -- "You pierce my soul" : feeling embodied and persuasion -- George Eliot and other-consciousness -- "A voice like music" : the problem of other minds and Middlemarch -- "Beloved ideas made flesh" : the embodied mind and Daniel Deronda -- Thomas Hardy and nonintrospective consciousness -- "Now I am melancholy mad" : mood and Jude the obscure -- "That blue narcotic haze" : dreams, dissociation, and Tess of the d'Urbervilles -- Coda : the neurology of narrative.…”
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The Queer Limit of Black Memory : Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution by Richardson, Matt

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION Listening to the Archives: Black Lesbian Literature and Queer Memory; CHAPTER 1 Desirous Mistresses and Unruly Slaves: Neo-Slave Narratives, Property, Power, and Desire; CHAPTER 2 Small Movements: Queer Blues Epistemologies in Cherry Muhanji's Her; CHAPTER 3 "Mens Womens Some that is Both Some That is Neither": Spiritual Epistemology and Queering the Black Rural South in the Work of Sharon Bridgforth…”
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The Queer Limit of Black Memory : Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution by Richardson, Matt

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION Listening to the Archives: Black Lesbian Literature and Queer Memory; CHAPTER 1 Desirous Mistresses and Unruly Slaves: Neo-Slave Narratives, Property, Power, and Desire; CHAPTER 2 Small Movements: Queer Blues Epistemologies in Cherry Muhanji's Her; CHAPTER 3 "Mens Womens Some that is Both Some That is Neither": Spiritual Epistemology and Queering the Black Rural South in the Work of Sharon Bridgforth…”
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Mutha' Is Half A Word : Intersection of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture / by Horton-Stallings, LaMonda

Table of Contents: “…The black woman and the trickster trope of unnaming -- The erotics of a healing subjectivity: sexual desire, the spirit, and the divine nature of trickster -- "Mutha' is half a word!": tar baby trope and blue material in black female comedy -- Badd-nasty: tricking the tropes of the Bad man/Nigga and Queen B -- The black and white of Queen B 's play -- Queen B s queering of neo-soul desire -- Representin' for the bitches: Queen B in hip-hop culture -- Trickster's gift: a language of sexual rights through polymorphous erotics and voluptuous black women's sexualities.…”
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Mutha' Is Half A Word : Intersection of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture / by Horton-Stallings, LaMonda

Table of Contents: “…The black woman and the trickster trope of unnaming -- The erotics of a healing subjectivity: sexual desire, the spirit, and the divine nature of trickster -- "Mutha' is half a word!": tar baby trope and blue material in black female comedy -- Badd-nasty: tricking the tropes of the Bad man/Nigga and Queen B -- The black and white of Queen B 's play -- Queen B s queering of neo-soul desire -- Representin' for the bitches: Queen B in hip-hop culture -- Trickster's gift: a language of sexual rights through polymorphous erotics and voluptuous black women's sexualities.…”
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