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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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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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Shaping Words to Fit the Soul : The Southern Ritual Grounds of Afro-Modernism /
Published 2009Table 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 /
Published 2009Table 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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"In the Light of Likeness - Transformed" : The Literary Art of Leon Forrest /
Published 2005Table 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 /
Published 2005Table 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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Mutha' Is Half A Word : Intersection of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture /
Published 2007Table 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 /
Published 2007Table 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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History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out : Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Working-Class History /
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…reading the autobiography of American communism -- Revolution and personal crisis : personal narrative and the subjective in the history of American Communism -- Blue-collar cosmopolitans : toward a history of working-class sophistication in industrial America -- The bohemian writer and the radical woodworker : a study in class relations -- Americanization from the bottom up : immigration and the remaking of the working class in the United States, 1880-1930 -- Inbetween peoples : race, nationality, and the "new immigrant" working class / James R. …”
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History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out : Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Working-Class History /
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…reading the autobiography of American communism -- Revolution and personal crisis : personal narrative and the subjective in the history of American Communism -- Blue-collar cosmopolitans : toward a history of working-class sophistication in industrial America -- The bohemian writer and the radical woodworker : a study in class relations -- Americanization from the bottom up : immigration and the remaking of the working class in the United States, 1880-1930 -- Inbetween peoples : race, nationality, and the "new immigrant" working class / James R. …”
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Afro-Future Females : Black Writer's Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Butler's Kindred and Gayl Jone's Corregidora sing the time travel blues / Jennifer E. Henton -- Beyond the history we know: Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, Nisi Shawl, and Jarla Tangh rethink science fiction tradition / De Witt Douglas Kilgore -- Bubbling champagne power trip / Nisi Shawl -- Of course people can fly / Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu -- Carla Johnson/Jarla Tangh: a close encounter with my pseudonym / Jarla Tangh -- The book of Martha / Octavia E. …”
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Afro-Future Females : Black Writer's Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Butler's Kindred and Gayl Jone's Corregidora sing the time travel blues / Jennifer E. Henton -- Beyond the history we know: Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, Nisi Shawl, and Jarla Tangh rethink science fiction tradition / De Witt Douglas Kilgore -- Bubbling champagne power trip / Nisi Shawl -- Of course people can fly / Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu -- Carla Johnson/Jarla Tangh: a close encounter with my pseudonym / Jarla Tangh -- The book of Martha / Octavia E. …”
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