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A Change in the Weather: Modernist Imagination, African American Imaginary
Contributor(s): Jacques, Geoffrey (Author)

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 ISBN: 1558496882     ISBN-13: 9781558496880
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
OUR PRICE: $31.45  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2009
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
- Literary Criticism | American - African American
Dewey: 811.509
LCCN: 2008035406
Age Level: 22-UP
Grade Level: 17-UP
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" L (0.65 lbs) 240 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
 
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This book explores the impact of African American culture on modernist poetic language by placing black literature and culture at the center of an inquiry into the genealogy of avant-garde poetics. Geoffrey Jacques looks at how blackface minstrelsy, ragtime, vernacular languages, advertising copy, Freud's idea of the Uncanny, vaudeville, the clich , and Tin Pan Alley-style song all influenced modernist poetry. In a key insight, Jacques points out that the black urban community in the United States did not live in ghettos during the years before World War I, but in smaller enclaves spread out among the general population. This circumstance helped catalyze African American culture's dramatic and surprising impact on the emergent avant-garde. By using a wide range of theoretical tools, Jacques poses new questions about literary, cultural, and social history, the history and structure of modernist poetic language, canon formation, and the history of criticism.This contribution to the ongoing debate over early twentieth-century culture presents modernism as an interracial, cross-cultural project, arguing for a new appreciation of the central role black culture played within it. Writers and artists whose works are discussed include Marianne Moore, Charles Chesnutt, Jean Toomer, Wallace Stevens, James A. Bland, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Gertrude Stein, Bert Williams, Zora Neale Hurston, Samuel Beckett, W. C. Handy, Hart Crane, and Clement Greenberg.
 
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