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Playing the Changes: From Afro-Modernism to the Jazz Impulse [Hardcover]

Craig Werner (Author)

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Publication Date: December 1, 1994

Offers several readings of Baldwin, Baraka, Brooks, Morrison, Walker, Wilson, and Wright, while emphasizing underrecognized writers, such as Ed Bullins, Charles Chesnutt, Samuel Delany, Leon Forrest, Gayl Jones, Adrienne Kennedy, and Melvin B Tolson.

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Hardcover: 341 pages
Publisher: University of Illinois Press (December 1, 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0252021126
ISBN-13: 978-0252021121
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,895,752 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #44 in Books > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Movements & Periods > Modernism

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First, three quotations. "Under exegetical pressure, self-reference demonstrates the impossibility of self-possession. Read the first page

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endurance narrative, gospel impulse, tar baby myth, jazz impulse, enduring saint, articulate kinsman, tribal literacy, higher innocence, oral aesthetic, black autobiographers, blues impulse, mainstream literacy, free singers, modernist performance, ascent narrative, gospel politics, immersion narrative, binding song, plantation myth, ritual ground, brier patch, plantation tradition, conventional voice, gospel vision, brutal experience

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Native Son, Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit, Black Arts Movement, Harlem Gallery, Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Chicago Renaissance, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Baxter's Procrustes, Richard Wright, Bigger Thomas, Nation of Islam, The Conjure Woman, South Side, New York, Zora Neale Hurston, Zulu Club, Another Country, Song of Solomon, United States, August Wilson, Leon Forrest

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