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Ghetto images in twentieth-century American literature : writing apartheid

Simpson, Tyrone R.

2012

Overview

01 02 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. 19 02 Shows how crucial spatial experience is to racial identity and undermines the popular notion that ghettoes are and have been solely spaces of blackness Uses spatial theory to show how literary artists imagine the function of ghettoes in a global network of spaces Presents an uncommon juxtaposition of literary artists Explores and analyzes a literary tradition of the ethno-racial American ghetto Seeks to bring the fields of literature, urban history, urban sociology, and critical race theory into conversation with each other 13 02 Tyrone R. Simpson II is an assistant professor in the Department of English as well as in Urban Studies, Africana Studies, and American Culture at Vassar College. 08 02 \"Taking the ghetto as a race-making institution dependent on technologies of im/mobility, Tyrone Simpson offers a lucid analysis of the urban ecology of twentieth century U.S. fiction. Giving new meaning to the fine art of close reading, he approaches the spatial as a dense psychic territory, one that requires an interdisciplinary array of knowledges to adequately parse. This is a vibrant literary engagement with critical race theory.\" - Robyn Wiegman, Professor, Literature and Women's Studies, Duke University, author of American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender and Object Lessons 'Tyrone Simpson gives us a compelling portrait of the historic pain and hope seared into America's rust belt ghettos. Under Simpson's deft prose, a new voice to understanding these racialized spaces – the engaged writer – is powerfully revealed.' - David Wilson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 02 02 This book explores how six American writers have artistically responded to the racialization of U.S. frostbelt cities in the twentieth century. Using the critical tools of spatial theory, critical race theory, urban history and sociology, Simpson explains how these writers imagine the subjective response to the race-making power of space. 31 02 In this comprehensive work, Tyrone R. Simpson, II, explores how six American writers have artistically responded to the racialization of U.S. frostbelt cities in the twentieth century 04 02 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?

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,Palgrave Macmillan US
• Subject: American / 20th Century / American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism / American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism / American fiction -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism / American Literature / American/General / Ethnicity Studies / Inner cities in literature / LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. bisacsh / Minorities in literature / Minority Studies / North American Literature / Palgrave Literature Collection / Race and Ethnicities / Race and Ethnicity / Race in literature / Segregation in literature / Snowbelt States -- In literature / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies. bisacsh / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban. bisacsh / Social Sciences / Social Structure, Social Inequality / Sociology / Twentieth-Century Literature / Urban communities / Urban Sociology / Urban Studies/Sociology / Urban, Community and Housing Studies / USA
• ISBN: 0230115934, 9780230115934, 9781137014894, 113701489X, 1349297070, 9781349297078