Ghetto Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature: Writing ApartheidThis book explores how six American writers have artistically responded to the racialization of U.S. frostbelt cities in the twentieth century. Using the critical tools of spatial theory, critical race theory, urban history and sociology, Simpson explains how these writers imagine the subjective response to the race-making power of space. |
Contents
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Anzia Yezierskas Bread Givers and the Space of White Racial Manufacture | 19 |
Masculine Fantasies and the Failure of Whiteness in Michael Golds Jews without Money | 42 |
Urban Moralism and the Transvestitic Antidote in Hubert Selby Jrs Last Exit to Brooklyn | 85 |
Chester Himes Melancholia and the Postmodern Renovation | 127 |
Carceral Ghettos and Ambivalent Nationalist Rebellions in Gloria Naylors The Women of Brewster Place | 174 |
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Ghetto Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature: Writing Apartheid Tyrone R. Simpson II No preview available - 2012 |
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