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Black Orpheus : music in African American fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison / edited by Saadi A. Simawe.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 2097.
- Garland reference library of the humanities. Border crossings ; v. 9.
- Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 2097. Border crossings ; v. 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Music and literature--History--20th century.
- Music and literature.
- African Americans--Music--History and criticism.
- Musical fiction--History and criticism.
- Musical fiction.
- African American musicians in literature.
- African Americans in literature.
- Music in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Garland Pub., 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In twentieth-century African American fiction, music has been elevated to the level of religion primarily because of its power as a medium of freedom. This collection explores literary invocations of music.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Series Editor's Foreword; Introduction: The Agency of Sound in African American Fiction; Singing the Unsayable: Theorizing Music in Dessa Rose; Claude McKay: Music, Sexuality, and Literary Cosmopolitanism; Black Moves, White Ways, Every Body's Blues: Orphic Power in Langston Hughes's The Ways of White Folks; Black and Blue: The Female Body of Blues Writing in Jean Toomer, Toni Morrison, and Gayl Jones; That Old Black Magic? Gender and Music in Ann Petry's Fiction
- ~It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing~: Jazz's Many Uses for Toni MorrisonShange and Her Three Sisters ~Sing a Liberation Song~: Variations on the Orphic Theme; Nathaniel Mackey's Unit Structures; Shamans of Song: Music and the Politics of Culture in Alice Walker's Early Fiction; Contributors; Index of Names
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-57983-0
- 1-280-40735-2
- 9786610407354
- 0-203-90440-0
- 0-203-90441-9
- 9780203904404
- OCLC:
- 84146322
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