Title Ghetto images in twentieth-century American literature : writing apartheid / Tyrone R. Simpson II

Edition 1st ed Published New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 302 pages) Series The future of minority studies Future of minority studies. Contents Introduction: Living for the City: Reading Twentieth Century Ghettoes in Postmodern Times -- "The Love of Colour in Me": Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers (1928) and the Space of White Racial Manufacture -- "To Make a Man Out of You: Masculine Fantasies and White Failure in Michael Gold's Jews Without Money (1930)" -- "Jammed in Hemispherical Blackness": Looking Through Campy Transvestitism in Hubert Selby Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn€ -- "'Enough to Make a Body Riot': Chester Himes, Melancholia, and the Postmodern Renovation" -- "In a World with No Address": Rescuing Ghetto Patriarchy in The Women of Brewster Place -- And the Arc of His Witness Explained Nothing: Black Flanerie and Traumatic Photorealism in Wideman's Two Cities -- Conclusion: Beyond the Manichean Literary Ghetto? Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Living for the City: Reading Twentieth Century Ghettoes in Postmodern Times * Chapter 1: "The Love of Colour in Me": Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers (1928) and the Space of White Racial Manufacture * Chapter 2: "To Make a Man Out of You: Masculine Fantasies and White Failure in Michael Gold's Jews Without Money (1930)" * Chapter 3 "Jammed in Hemispherical Blackness": Looking Through Campy Transvestitism in Hubert Selby Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn * Chapter 4: "'Enough to Make a Body Riot': Chester Himes, Melancholia, and the Postmodern Renovation" * Chapter 5 "In a World with No Address": Rescuing Ghetto Patriarchy in The Women of Brewster Place * Chapter 6: And the Arc of His Witness Explained Nothing: Black Flanerie and Traumatic Photorealism in Wideman's Two Cities * Conclusion: Beyond the Manichean Literary Ghetto? Summary In this comprehensive work, Tyrone R. Simpson, II, explores how six American writers - Anzia Yezierska, Michael Gold, Hubert Selby Jr., Chester Himes, Gloria Naylor, and John Edgar Wideman - have artistically responded to the racialization of U.S. frostbelt cities in the twentieth century. By using the critical tools of spatial theory, critical race theory, urban history, and urban sociology, Simpson accounts for how these writers imagine the subjective response to the race-making power of space "In this comprehensive work, Tyrone R. Simpson, II, explores how six American writers--Anzia Yezierska, Michael Gold, Hubert Selby Jr., Chester Himes, Gloria Naylor, and John Edgar Wideman--have artistically responded to the racialization of U.S. frostbelt cities in the twentieth century. By using the critical tools of spatial theory, critical race theory, urban history, and urban sociology, Simpson accounts for how these writers imagine the subjective response to the race-making power of space"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Subject Inner cities in literature. American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism American fiction -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism Minorities in literature. Segregation in literature. Literary studies: from c 1900 -- English -- USA. Urban communities -- English -- USA. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Literature. American fiction American fiction -- African American authors American fiction -- Jewish authors Inner cities in literature Literature Minorities in literature Segregation in literature SUBJECT Snowbelt States -- In literature Subject United States -- Snowbelt States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781137014894 113701489X 1280584068 9781280584060 9786613613882 6613613886

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