05646nam 2200793Ia 450 991082241690332120200520144314.01-280-58406-897866136138821-137-01489-X10.1057/9781137014894(CKB)2670000000147399(EBL)868385(OCoLC)778698446(SSID)ssj0000624007(PQKBManifestationID)11389604(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000624007(PQKBWorkID)10656564(PQKB)11266172(DE-He213)978-1-137-01489-4(MiAaPQ)EBC868385(PPN)190557249(EXLCZ)99267000000014739920110801d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGhetto images in twentieth-century American literature writing apartheid /Tyrone R. Simpson II1st ed.New York, NY Palgrave Macmillan20121 online resource (317 p.)The future of minority studiesDescription based upon print version of record.1-349-29707-0 0-230-11593-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Ghetto Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature: Writing Apartheid; Contents; Acknowledgments; Copyright Acknowledgments; Introduction: Mapping the Racial Partition; Chapter 1: "The Love of Colour in Me": Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers and the Space of White Racial Manufacture; "More and More We Wanted More Things": Desire and Deception in Commodity America; "They Put on Color": Of Narrative Shadows and Failed Masquerades; "Everything in Its Place": The Unconscious Production of White SpaceChapter 2: "To Make a Man out of You": Masculine Fantasies and the Failure of Whiteness in Michael Gold's Jews without Money"Their Country and Their Hamburger Steak": Toward Claims of Ghetto Nationhood; "Not to Play with that Nigger": Abjecting the Absent Black; "One Jew Could Kill a Hundred Indians": The Making of Imperial White Men; "A Serious Married Man": The American Gender Imperative; "There Will Be a Boom in Brownsville": The White Right to Suburban Flight; "The City Is Locked against Me!": A Coda on Immigrant UrbanismChapter 3: "Something Tangible to Strike at": Urban Moralism and the Transvestitic Antidote in Hubert Selby Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn"Emile Zola Is Not My Shtick": Selby's Moral Unnaturalism; "And Baby Makes Three": Race, the City, and Selby's Heteronormative Imagination; "I Find Staying in Brooklyn Too Long Very Oppressive": On Urban Flight and Hip Queer Escape; Chapter 4: "Enough to Make a Body Riot": Chester Himes, Melancholia, and the Postmodern Renovation; "I Could Always Feel Race Trouble . . . Never More Than Two Feet Off": Chester Himes's Melancholic Perception"It Was Another Ghetto like Any Other": The After-Image of Himes's Harlem"There Ain't Gonna Be Any Facts": On Epistemological Shifts and Postmodern Solutions; "At Last You've Finally Got Your Own House": Beyond a Segregationist Imaginary; Chapter 5: "In a World with No Address": Carceral Ghettos and Ambivalent Nationalist Rebellions in Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place; "They Came Because They Had No Choice": Mapping Naylor's Carceral Cartography; "Viewed with a Jaundiced Eye": Wayward Women and Sex in the Panoptic Ghetto"A Man's Gotta Be a Man": Nationalism and Naylor's Gender TroubleChapter 6: "And the Arc of His Witness Explained Nothing": Black Flanerie and Traumatic Photorealism in Wideman's Two Cities; "When Words Led Him into a Familiar Place": The Trauma of Language; "Staying Put Where They Put Us": On Ghetto Containment and Black Flanerie; "No Words for What Separates and Connects These Moments": Mallory's Trauma and Silence; "Asking My Pictures to Be Mirrors": Seeking Photographic Refuge; "Look What You Done to Yourselves": Redemption by Photorealism; Coda: An Emergency of SurplusConclusion: On Ghettos to ComeThis book explores how six American writers have artistically responded to the racialization of U.S. frostbelt cities in the twentieth century. Using the critical tools of spatial theory, critical race theory, urban history and sociology, Simpson explains how these writers imagine the subjective response to the race-making power of space.Future of minority studies.Inner cities in literatureAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAmerican fictionJewish authorsHistory and criticismMinorities in literatureSegregation in literatureSnowbelt StatesIn literatureInner cities in literature.American fictionHistory and criticism.American fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.American fictionJewish authorsHistory and criticism.Minorities in literature.Segregation in literature.813/.5409355SOC020000SOC026030LIT004020bisacshSimpson Tyrone1757318MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822416903321Ghetto images in twentieth-century American literature4195140UNINA