03457nam 2200733 a 450 991082865850332120240513023912.01-282-87617-197866128761721-4411-7961-5(CKB)2670000000055306(EBL)601898(OCoLC)676695855(SSID)ssj0000415197(PQKBManifestationID)12183072(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000415197(PQKBWorkID)10409122(PQKB)10130182(SSID)ssj0001143771(PQKBManifestationID)12482451(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001143771(PQKBWorkID)11112994(PQKB)11668133(MiAaPQ)EBC601898(Au-PeEL)EBL601898(CaPaEBR)ebr10427071(CaONFJC)MIL287617(OCoLC)893335282(EXLCZ)99267000000005530620090225d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCross-rhythms jazz aesthetics in African-American literature /Keren Omry1st ed.London ;New York Continuumc20081 online resource (196 p.)Continuum literary studies seriesIncludes discography.1-4411-0295-7 0-8264-9743-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [178]-184) and index.Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Blues notes: a discourse of race in the poetry of Langston Hughes, in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and in Corregidora by Gayl Jones; 2. Bebop spoken here: performativity in Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison; 3. Modes of experience: modal jazz and the authority of experience in Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Song of Solomon; 4. Free jazz: postracialism and collectivity in Toni Morrison's 'Recitatif' and Paradise; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Discography; IndexCross-Rhythms investigates the literary uses and effects of blues and jazz in African-American literature of the twentieth century. Texts by James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Gayl Jones, Toni Morrison and Ishmael Reed variously adopt or are consciously informed by a jazz aesthetic; this aesthetic becomes part of a strategy of ethnic identification and provides a medium with which to consider the legacy of trauma in African-American history. These diverse writers are all thoroughly immersed in a socio-cultural context and a literary aesthetic that embodies shiftContinuum literary studies.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismJazzPhilosophy and aestheticsJazz in literatureAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.JazzPhilosophy and aesthetics.Jazz in literature.American literatureHistory and criticism.810.98960730904Omry Keren1637175MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828658503321Cross-rhythms3978860UNINA