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Cover 1 Title Page, Copyright Page, Dedication 2 Table of Contents 8 Acknowledgments 10 Prelude: So What? 12 1. The Remembering Song: Toward an Aesthetic of Literary Jazz in Sidney Bechet's Treat It Gentle 22 2. "Swing It, Sister": Jazz Time in Ann Petry's The Street 43 3. Bopping Billy Clubs, Burning Cadillacs, and Wigged-out Aliens: Jazz and Violence in Short Stories by Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, and Amiri Baraka 64 4. Kinds of Blue: Toni Morrison, Hans Janowitz, and the Jazz Aesthetic 98 Coda: Waiting to Be the Music: Hybridity, Afro-Modernism, and Critical Practice 126 Notes 132 Selected Discography 158 Works Cited 160 Index 174 Publisher:The Ohio State University Press,Published:2005,ISBN:9780814272831,Related ISBN:9780814251324,Language:English,OCLC:607623530 In this fresh and stimulating book, the author analyzes African American prose through the lens of a literary jazz aesthetic. While there is a substantial body of jazz criticism of poetry, African American narrative has not drawn as much critical attention. Kinds of Blue probes not how African American authors write about jazz, but how African American narratives are jazz—in other words, how they attempt to wrest be

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Author

Grandt, Jürgen E

Publisher

The Ohio State University Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814290651

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Biography