MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01963cam a22003494a 4500
001 2009017396
003 DLC
005 20100710085234.0
008 090507s2009 ohu b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2009017396
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050 00 $aPN56.M54$bG73 2009
100 1 $aGrandt, Jürgen E.,$d1968-
245 10 $aShaping words to fit the soul :$bthe southern ritual grounds of Afro-modernism /$cJürgen E. Grandt.
260 $aColumbus :$bOhio State University Press,$cc2009.
300 $ax, 192 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 163-181) and index.
505 0 $aA life and power far beyond the letter : the Afro-modernism of life and times of Frederick Douglass -- Shaping words to fit the soul : Afro-modernism and the breakdown of communication in Jean Toomer's Cane -- Roll call : Richard Wright's "Long black song" and the betrayal of music -- Blues and the abstract truth : the Southern groove continuum from W. C. Handy to the Allman Brothers Band -- Life and death in the Dirty South : the urban ritual grounds of Tayari Jones -- Conclusion. "The biggest colored show on earth" : Afro-modernism, hip-hop, and postmodern blackness.
650 0 $aModernism (Literature)
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism.
600 10 $aDouglass, Frederick,$d1818-1895$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aToomer, Jean,$d1894-1967$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aWright, Richard,$d1908-1960$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aJones, Tayari$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aModernism (Music)
600 10 $aHandy, W. C.$q(William Christopher),$d1873-1958$xCriticism and interpretation.
610 20 $aAllman Brothers Band$xCriticism and interpretation.