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Ford, Elisabeth Venetta.

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Black metropolis: African American urban narrative in the twentieth century (Richard Wright, Chester Himes).

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Black metropolis: African American urban narrative in the twentieth century (Richard Wright, Chester Himes)./
Author:	Ford, Elisabeth Venetta.
Description:	267 p.
Notes:	Advisers: Lawrence Buell; Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Barbara Johnson.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-04A.
Subject:	Black Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3051163
ISBN:	0493656707

Black metropolis: African American urban narrative in the twentieth century (Richard Wright, Chester Himes).
Ford, Elisabeth Venetta.

Black metropolis: African American urban narrative in the twentieth century (Richard Wright, Chester Himes). - 267 p.

Advisers: Lawrence Buell; Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Barbara Johnson.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2002.

Literature from diverse genres reflects how the African American community has appropriated the cities to which it has been relocating for the past century. In each section of the present work, I consider a different area of African American writing in its intersections with such popular discourses as social science and Hollywood film; all share a concern with the way that literature allows a community to locate itself in contemporary space and time.

ISBN: 0493656707Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017673
Black Studies.

Black metropolis: African American urban narrative in the twentieth century (Richard Wright, Chester Himes).
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520 $a Literature from diverse genres reflects how the African American community has appropriated the cities to which it has been relocating for the past century. In each section of the present work, I consider a different area of African American writing in its intersections with such popular discourses as social science and Hollywood film; all share a concern with the way that literature allows a community to locate itself in contemporary space and time.
520 $a Chapter one shows how Richard Wright's fiction reiterates the migration narrative, a genre preoccupied with negotiating arrival in the city. Wright's fiction (<italic>Native Son</italic> and “The Man Who Lived Underground”) engages in Gothic fantasies of the city derived largely from Chicago school sociology (especially that of Robert E. Park). Wright's <italic>12 Million Black Voices</italic> also exhibits the interaction of documentary and literary impulses as Wright's text interprets and revises a corpus of photographs taken by WPA photographers during the 1930s and 40s.
520 $a Chapter two examines the complex discourse of race submerged in classic <italic> noir</italic> fictions and Hollywood films. The psychic “dark side” of the American urban landscape in which <italic>noir</italic> unfolds is a racialized space, a locus for the varied othernesses feared by popular culture. Examining <italic>noir</italic> writers such as Hammett and Chandler lays the groundwork for a consideration of Chester Himes's “Harlem Domestic” thrillers as revising traditional <italic>noir</italic> understandings of the racial geography of the city. Urban theorists such as Jane Jacobs and Mike Davis and the contemporary <italic>noir</italic> writer Walter Mosley are more recent practitioners of this revisionary <italic>noir</italic> impulse.
520 $a Chapter three views African American prison narratives as a special case within the urban narrative. Nonfiction prison narratives enact strategies that model possible resistances to the social and economic repression characterizing the inner city. The works of authors such as Eldridge Cleaver, George Jackson, and John Edgar Wideman all use the tropes demanded by the epistolary format of the prison narrative as figures for the material impact of individual resistance on the prison environment. Analyzing these resistances offers glimpses of the ways in which writing can effectively intersect with the realities of lived experience.
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