The City in African-American literature

Title
  1. The City in African-American literature / edited, and with an introduction by Yoshinobu Hakutani and Robert Butler.
Published by
  1. Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c1995.

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Additional authors
  1. Hakutani, Yoshinobu, 1935-
  2. Butler, Robert.
Description
  1. 265 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  1. City and town life in literature
  2. American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
  3. African Americans in literature
  4. Cities and towns in literature
Contents
  1. 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
  1. Sc E 95-373
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title
  1. The City in African-American literature / edited, and with an introduction by Yoshinobu Hakutani and Robert Butler.
Imprint
  1. Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c1995.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added author
  1. Hakutani, Yoshinobu, 1935-
  2. Butler, Robert.
LCCN
  1. 94017251
ISBN
  1. 0838635652 (alk. paper)
Research call number
  1. Sc E 95-373
  2. JFE 95-5180
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