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Seems like murder here southern violence and the blues tradition /
Published 2002Table of Contents: “…"I'm tore down" -- Lynching and the birth of a blues tradition -- "Make my getaway" -- Southern violence and blues entrepreneurship in W.C. …”
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Seems like murder here southern violence and the blues tradition /
Published 2002Table of Contents: “…"I'm tore down" -- Lynching and the birth of a blues tradition -- "Make my getaway" -- Southern violence and blues entrepreneurship in 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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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 memories reflections of African American women writers /
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Shaping memories reflections of African American women writers /
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The African American theatrical body reception, performance, and the stage /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Resisting shame, offering praise and worship: Langston Hughes's Tambourines to Glory; 5. Resisting death: the blues bravado of a ghost: James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie; 6. …”
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The African American theatrical body reception, performance, and the stage /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Resisting shame, offering praise and worship: Langston Hughes's Tambourines to Glory; 5. Resisting death: the blues bravado of a ghost: James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie; 6. …”
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Exodus politics : civil rights and leadership in African American literature and culture /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…: the politics of gender and gender politics: civil rights activism and leadership in Ernest Gaines' The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman -- The refusal of Christ to accept crucifixion: bridge leadership refutes the paradoxes of exodus politics in Alice Walker's Meridian -- The important thing is making generations: reconsidering reproduction and blues performances as forms of civil rights leadership in Gayl Jones' Corregidora -- We all killed him the limits of (formal) leadership and civil rights legislation in Charles Johnson's Dreamer -- Epilogue: Is there life after exodus politics?.…”
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Exodus politics : civil rights and leadership in African American literature and culture /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…: the politics of gender and gender politics: civil rights activism and leadership in Ernest Gaines' The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman -- The refusal of Christ to accept crucifixion: bridge leadership refutes the paradoxes of exodus politics in Alice Walker's Meridian -- The important thing is making generations: reconsidering reproduction and blues performances as forms of civil rights leadership in Gayl Jones' Corregidora -- We all killed him the limits of (formal) leadership and civil rights legislation in Charles Johnson's Dreamer -- Epilogue: Is there life after exodus politics?.…”
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Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American narratives /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American subjectivity -- Multiple representations of Philadelphia and John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia fire -- The trickster, African American virtual subject and Percival Everett's erasure -- Using jazz music and aesthetics to re-describe the African American in Toni Morrison's jazz -- Revolting to sustain psychic life: Bonnie Greer's hanging by her teeth and the encounter with the other -- Virtual-actual reality and Clarence Major's reflex and bone structure -- The Jungian/African collective unconscious, jazz aesthetics, and Xam Cartier's Muse-echo blues -- Conclusion.…”
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Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American narratives /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American subjectivity -- Multiple representations of Philadelphia and John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia fire -- The trickster, African American virtual subject and Percival Everett's erasure -- Using jazz music and aesthetics to re-describe the African American in Toni Morrison's jazz -- Revolting to sustain psychic life: Bonnie Greer's hanging by her teeth and the encounter with the other -- Virtual-actual reality and Clarence Major's reflex and bone structure -- The Jungian/African collective unconscious, jazz aesthetics, and Xam Cartier's Muse-echo blues -- Conclusion.…”
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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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Asian American studies now a critical reader /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Okihiro -- Neither black nor white / Angelo N. Ancheta -- Detroit blues: "Because of you motherfuckers" / Helen Zia -- A dialogue on racial melancholia / David L. …”
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Asian American studies now a critical reader /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Okihiro -- Neither black nor white / Angelo N. Ancheta -- Detroit blues: "Because of you motherfuckers" / Helen Zia -- A dialogue on racial melancholia / David L. …”
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