LEADER 03457nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910828658503321 005 20240513023912.0 010 $a1-282-87617-1 010 $a9786612876172 010 $a1-4411-7961-5 035 $a(CKB)2670000000055306 035 $a(EBL)601898 035 $a(OCoLC)676695855 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000415197 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12183072 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000415197 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10409122 035 $a(PQKB)10130182 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001143771 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12482451 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001143771 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11112994 035 $a(PQKB)11668133 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC601898 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL601898 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10427071 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL287617 035 $a(OCoLC)893335282 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000055306 100 $a20090225d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCross-rhythms $ejazz aesthetics in African-American literature /$fKeren Omry 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cContinuum$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (196 p.) 225 1 $aContinuum literary studies series 300 $aIncludes discography. 311 $a1-4411-0295-7 311 $a0-8264-9743-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [178]-184) and index. 327 $aContents; 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; Index 330 $aCross-Rhythms investigates the literary uses and effects of blues and jazz in African-American literature of the twentieth century. Texts by James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Gayl Jones, Toni Morrison and Ishmael Reed variously adopt or are consciously informed by a jazz aesthetic; this aesthetic becomes part of a strategy of ethnic identification and provides a medium with which to consider the legacy of trauma in African-American history. These diverse writers are all thoroughly immersed in a socio-cultural context and a literary aesthetic that embodies shift 410 0$aContinuum literary studies. 606 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aJazz$xPhilosophy and aesthetics 606 $aJazz in literature 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aJazz$xPhilosophy and aesthetics. 615 0$aJazz in literature. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a810.98960730904 700 $aOmry$b Keren$01637175 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828658503321 996 $aCross-rhythms$93978860 997 $aUNINA