1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910637746703321

Autore

Lee A. Robert <1941->

Titolo

Designs of Blackness : mappings in the literature and culture of Afro-America / / A. Robert Lee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bern, : Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group, 2020

New York, New York : , : Peter Lang, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

1-4331-8019-7

1-4331-8018-9

Edizione

[Twenty fifth anniversary edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 340 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

818.08

Soggetti

American prose literature - African American authors - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: 25th anniversary edition: perspective and memoir -- Reclamations: the early Afro-America of Phillis Wheatley, Jupiter Hammond, Olauda Equiano and David Walker -- The stance of self-representation: African American life writing,1850s-1990s -- Harlem on my mind: fictions of a Black metropolis from Claude McKay to Darryl Pinckney -- Womanisms: the novel 1860s-1990s -- Richard Wright's inside narratives -- War and peace: writing the Black 1940s -- Black Beats: the signifying poetry of LeRoi Jones/Imamu Amiri, Baraka, Ted Joans and Bob Kaufman -- Acting out: The Black drama of the 1960s, the 1960s of Black Drama -- Equilibrium out of their chaos: Black modernism, the postmodern, and Leon Forrest's Witherspoon-Bloodworth trilogy -- Under cover, under covers: performing race from Williams Wells Brown to Charles Johnson -- Into the twenty-first century: fiction's continuities and variations -- Into the twenty-first century: poetry's voice and echo.

Sommario/riassunto

Across more than two centuries Afro-America has created a huge and dazzling variety of literary self-expression. Designs of Blackness provides less a narrative literary history than, precisely, a series of mappings—each literary-critical and comparative while at the same time offering cultural and historical context. This carefully re-edited



version of the 1998 publication opens with an estimation of earliest African American voice in the names of Phillis Wheatley and her contemporaries. It then takes up the huge span of autobiography from Frederick Douglass through to Maya Angelou. "Harlem on My Mind," which follows, sets out the literary contours of America’s premier black city. Womanism, Alice Walker’s presiding term, is given full due in an analysis of fiction from Harriet E. Wilson to Toni Morrison. Richard Wright is approached not as some regulation "realist" but as a more inward, at times near-surreal, author. Decadology has its risks but the 1940s has rarely been approached as a unique era of war and peace and especially in African American texts. Beat Generation work usually adheres to Ginsberg and Kerouac, but black Beat writing invites its own chapter in the names of Amiri Baraka, Ted Joans and Bob Kaufman. The 1960s has long become a mythic change-decade, and in few greater respects than as a black theatre both of the stage and politics. In Leon Forrest African America had a figure of the postmodern turn: his work is explored in its own right and for how it takes its place in the context of other reflexive black fiction. "African American Fictions of Passing" unpacks the whole deceptive trope of "race" in writing from Williams Wells Brown through to Charles Johnson. The two newly added chapters pursue African American literary achievement into the Obama-Trump century, fiction from Octavia Butler to Darryl Pinkney, poetry from Rita Dove to Kevin Young.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA990000654920403321

Autore

Samonà, Giuseppe <1898-1983>

Titolo

L'urbanistica e l'avvenire della città negli Stati europei / Giuseppe Samonà

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bari, : Editori Laterza, 1959

Descrizione fisica

311 p. : ill. ; 21 cm

Collana

Biblioteca di cultura moderna ; 537

Disciplina

711.2

Locazione

FARBC

FLFBC

ILFGE

DINST

DARST

DCATA

DARPU

Collocazione

PACIELLO 66

711 SAM 1 BIS

711 SAM 1

H-01-122

01 DB 2105

01 URB 45

URB.LE B 1097

FUC 129

18.008

I(FN) D 217

RGT 646

B 1475 CAN

DE FUSCO 343

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia