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Simpson II 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York, NY $cPalgrave Macmillan$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (317 p.) 225 1 $aThe future of minority studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-349-29707-0 311 $a0-230-11593-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 Space 327 $aChapter 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 Urbanism 327 $aChapter 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 327 $a"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 327 $a"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 Surplus 327 $aConclusion: On Ghettos to Come 330 $aThis book explores how six American writers have artistically responded to the racialization of U.S. frostbelt cities in the twentieth century. 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