The City in African-American literature
- Title
- The City in African-American literature / edited, and with an introduction by Yoshinobu Hakutani and Robert Butler.
- Published by
- Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c1995.
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- Additional authors
- Description
- 265 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Contents
- The city as liberating space in Life and times of Frederick Douglass / Robert Butler -- The Harlem Renaissance city / Donald B. Gibson -- The city and Richard Wright's quest for freedom / Yoshinobu Hakutani -- "No street numbers in Accra" : Richard Wright's African cities / Jack B. Moore -- Stadtluft macht frei! : African-American writers and Berlin (1892-1932) / Eberhard Brüning -- Richard Wright's Paris / Michel Fabre -- Selves of the city, selves of the South : the city in the fiction of William Attaway and Willard Motley -- The city as psychological frontier in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man and Charles Johnson's Faith and the good thing / Robert Butler -- "But the city was real" : James Baldwin's literary milieu / Fred L. Standley -- If the street could talk : James Baldwin's search for love and understanding / Yoshinobu Hakutani -- Metonymy and synecdoche : the rhetoric of the city in Toni Morrison's Jazz / Jocelyn Chadwick-Joshua -- The wall and the mirror in the promised land : the city in the novels of Gloria Naylor / Michael F. Lynch -- The sensory assault of the city in Ann Petry's The street / Larry R. Andrews -- John A. Williams : the Black American narrative and the city / Priscilla R. Ramsey -- The urban pastoral and labored ease of Samuel R. Delany / Donald M. Hassler -- The inner and outer city : a study of the landscape of the imagination in Black drama / Robert L. Tener.
- Call number
- Sc E 95-373
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Title
- The City in African-American literature / edited, and with an introduction by Yoshinobu Hakutani and Robert Butler.
- Imprint
- Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c1995.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added author
- Hakutani, Yoshinobu, 1935-
- Butler, Robert.
- LCCN
- 94017251
- ISBN
- 0838635652 (alk. paper)
- Research call number
- Sc E 95-373
- JFE 95-5180