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Cross-Rhythms: Jazz Aesthetics in African-American Literature

Cross-Rhythms: Jazz Aesthetics in African-American Literature

Omry, Keren
Keren Omry

Paperback

Series: Continuum Literary Studies, Book 188

Literary CriticismJazz

ISBN10: 1441102957
ISBN13: 9781441102959
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Dec 22 2011
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Cross-Rhythms investigates the literary uses and effects of blues and jazz in African-American literature of the twentieth century. Texts by James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Gayl Jones, Toni Morrison and Ishmael Reed variously adopt or are consciously informed by a jazz aesthetic; this aesthetic becomes part of a strategy of ethnic identification and provides a medium with which to consider the legacy of trauma in African-American history. These diverse writers are all thoroughly immersed in a socio-cultural context and a literary aesthetic that embodies shifting conceptions of ethnic identity across the twentieth century. The emergence of blues and jazz is, likewise, a crucial product of, as well as catalyst for, this context, and in their own aesthetic explorations of notions of ethnicity these writers consciously engage with this musical milieu.

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