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The blues aesthetic and the making of American identity in the literature of the South  Cover Image Book Book

The blues aesthetic and the making of American identity in the literature of the South

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  • ISBN: 0820462209 (alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: viii, 164 p. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : P. Lang, c2003.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Bibliography: p. [161]-164.
Formatted Contents Note:
George Washington Harris : the emergence of the blues from behind Sut's tragic/comic mask -- Charles Chesnutt : the dialectic of cultural transformation -- Zora Neale Hurston : from the jook to the juke box -- Lewis Nordan : riffing on memory and playing through the breaks.
Subject: American literature > Southern States > History and criticism.
Harris, George Washington, 1814-1869 > Criticism and interpretation.
Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932 > Criticism and interpretation.
Hurston, Zora Neale > Criticism and interpretation.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Nordan, Lewis > Criticism and interpretation.
Aesthetics, American > Southern States.
Lovingood, Sut (Fictitious character)
Southern States > In literature.
African Americans in literature.
Blues (Music) in literature.
Melancholy in literature.
Sadness in literature.
Music and literature.

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at State Library of Alabama.

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APLS 810.9357 BAK 31291002678751 ALACIRC Available -

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