Ghetto images in twentieth-century American literature [electronic resource] : writing apartheid / Tyrone R. Simpson II.
In this comprehensive work, Tyrone R. Simpson, II, explores how six American writers - Anzia Yezierska, Michael Gold, Hubert Selby Jr., Chester Himes, Gloria Naylor, and John Edgar Wideman - have artistically responded to the racialization of U.S. frostbelt cities in the twentieth century. By using...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Future of minority studies.
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| Summary: | In this comprehensive work, Tyrone R. Simpson, II, explores how six American writers - Anzia Yezierska, Michael Gold, Hubert Selby Jr., Chester Himes, Gloria Naylor, and John Edgar Wideman - have artistically responded to the racialization of U.S. frostbelt cities in the twentieth century. By using the critical tools of spatial theory, critical race theory, urban history, and urban sociology, Simpson accounts for how these writers imagine the subjective response to the race-making power of space. "In this comprehensive work, Tyrone R. Simpson, II, explores how six American writers--Anzia Yezierska, Michael Gold, Hubert Selby Jr., Chester Himes, Gloria Naylor, and John Edgar Wideman--have artistically responded to the racialization of U.S. frostbelt cities in the twentieth century. By using the critical tools of spatial theory, critical race theory, urban history, and urban sociology, Simpson accounts for how these writers imagine the subjective response to the race-making power of space"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 302 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781137014894 113701489X 1280584068 9781280584060 9786613613882 6613613886 |
| Language: | English. |