The Jazz Trope - A Theory of African American Literary and Vernacular Culture

Informationen zum Autor Alfonso W. Hawkins Jr. is an educational researcher and writer who specializes in literary genre studies, American pop culture, and film history. Klappentext The Jazz Trope takes a look at the African American lifestyle through the lens of jazz, blues, and spirituals. Through the pioneering efforts of Albert Murray, Ralph Ellison, Houston Baker, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Ishmael Reed, Amiri Baraka, and other notable scholars who have related jazz, spirituals, and blues to African American life and culture, The Jazz Trope offers an opportunity to add scholarship to the perception of African American identity as a creative attempt to survive a unique history and struggle.

Product details

• Authors: Alfonso W. Hawkins, Alfonso W. Jr. Hawkins, Alphonso W. Hawkins
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2008
• EAN: 9780810861268
• ISBN: 978-0-8108-6126-8
• No. of pages: 243
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: African American Cultural Theory and Heritage; African American Cultural Theo; African American Cultural Theory and Heritage
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies