Ghetto images in twentieth-century American literature : writing apartheid /

Ghetto images in twentieth-century American literature : writing apartheid /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Simpson, Tyrone
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Future of minority studies.
Subjects:
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.
Snowbelt States > In literature.

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