The Resource Ghetto images in twentieth-century American literature : writing apartheid, Tyrone R. Simpson II
Ghetto images in twentieth-century American literature : writing apartheid, Tyrone R. Simpson II
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The item Ghetto images in twentieth-century American literature : writing apartheid, Tyrone R. Simpson II represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries.
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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"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Extent
- xii, 302 p.
- Contents
-
- Introduction: Mapping the racial partition
- 1. "The Love of Colour in Me": Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers and the space of white racial manufacture
- 2. "To Make a Man Out of You": masculine fantasies and failure of whiteness in Michael Gold's Jews Without Money
- 3. "Something Tangible to Strike At": urban moralism and the transvestitic antidote in Hubert Selby Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn
- 4. "'Enough to Make a Body Riot': Chester Himes, melancholia, and the postmodern renovation
- 5. "In a World with No Address": carceral ghettos and ambivalent nationalist rebellions in Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place
- 6. "And the Arc of His Witness Explained Nothing": Black flanerie and traumatic photorealism in Wideman's Two Cities
- Conclusion: on ghettos to come
- Isbn
- 9780230115934
- Label
- Ghetto images in twentieth-century American literature : writing apartheid
- Title
- Ghetto images in twentieth-century American literature
- Title remainder
- writing apartheid
- Statement of responsibility
- Tyrone R. Simpson II
- Subject
-
- American fiction -- African American authors | History and criticism
- American fiction -- Jewish authors | History and criticism
- Inner cities in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
- Minorities in literature
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
- Segregation in literature
- Snowbelt States -- In literature
- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Language
- eng
- 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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Simpson, Tyrone
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS374.I53
- LC item number
- S56 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- The future of minority studies
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Inner cities in literature
- American fiction
- American fiction
- American fiction
- Minorities in literature
- Segregation in literature
- Snowbelt States
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
- Label
- Ghetto images in twentieth-century American literature : writing apartheid, Tyrone R. Simpson II
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- Introduction: Mapping the racial partition -- 1. "The Love of Colour in Me": Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers and the space of white racial manufacture -- 2. "To Make a Man Out of You": masculine fantasies and failure of whiteness in Michael Gold's Jews Without Money -- 3. "Something Tangible to Strike At": urban moralism and the transvestitic antidote in Hubert Selby Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn -- 4. "'Enough to Make a Body Riot': Chester Himes, melancholia, and the postmodern renovation -- 5. "In a World with No Address": carceral ghettos and ambivalent nationalist rebellions in Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place -- 6. "And the Arc of His Witness Explained Nothing": Black flanerie and traumatic photorealism in Wideman's Two Cities -- Conclusion: on ghettos to come
- Control code
- 701020024
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Extent
- xii, 302 p.
- Isbn
- 9780230115934
- Lccn
- 2011031581
- System control number
- (OCoLC)701020024
- Label
- Ghetto images in twentieth-century American literature : writing apartheid, Tyrone R. Simpson II
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- Introduction: Mapping the racial partition -- 1. "The Love of Colour in Me": Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers and the space of white racial manufacture -- 2. "To Make a Man Out of You": masculine fantasies and failure of whiteness in Michael Gold's Jews Without Money -- 3. "Something Tangible to Strike At": urban moralism and the transvestitic antidote in Hubert Selby Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn -- 4. "'Enough to Make a Body Riot': Chester Himes, melancholia, and the postmodern renovation -- 5. "In a World with No Address": carceral ghettos and ambivalent nationalist rebellions in Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place -- 6. "And the Arc of His Witness Explained Nothing": Black flanerie and traumatic photorealism in Wideman's Two Cities -- Conclusion: on ghettos to come
- Control code
- 701020024
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Extent
- xii, 302 p.
- Isbn
- 9780230115934
- Lccn
- 2011031581
- System control number
- (OCoLC)701020024
Subject
- American fiction -- African American authors | History and criticism
- American fiction -- Jewish authors | History and criticism
- Inner cities in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
- Minorities in literature
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
- Segregation in literature
- Snowbelt States -- In literature
- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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