Title Kinds of Blue The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative / Jürgen E. Grandt

Published Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2004

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 160 p. ) Contents Prelude: So what? -- The remembering song : toward an aesthetic of literary jazz in Sidney Bechet's Treat it Gentle -- "Swing it, sister" : jazz time in Ann Petry's The Street -- Boping billy clubs, burning cadillacs, and wigged-out aliens : jazz and violence in short stories by Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, and Amiri Baraka -- Kinds of blue : Toni Morrison, Hans Janowitz, and the jazz aesthetic -- Coda: Waiting to be the music : hybridity, afro-modernism, and critical practice Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-151) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Description based on print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Jazz in literature. African American aesthetics. Jazz -- History and criticism African Americans in literature. Autobiography -- African American authors. Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century Music and literature -- History -- 20th century African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century American prose literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism African American aesthetics. African Americans in literature. African Americans -- Intellectual life. American prose literature -- African American authors. Autobiography -- African American authors. Jazz. Jazz in literature. Music and literature. Narration (Rhetoric) Literatur Jazz Motiv Jazz Ästhetik Jazz. Bellettrie. Esthetica. Negers. USA Schwärze Verenigde Staten. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Form Electronic book LC no. 2004029047 ISBN 0814272835 9780814272831 0814209807 9780814209806 0814251323 9780814251324

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