Details

Subject(s)

• American literature—African American authors—History and criticism [Browse]
• Jazz in literature [Browse]
• Modernism (Literature)—United States [Browse]
• African Americans—Music—History and criticism [Browse]
• Black nationalism—United States—History—20th century [Browse]
• African Americans—Social life and customs—20th century [Browse]

Series

• New Black studies series [More in this series]
• The new black studies series

Summary note

"Jazz Internationalism offers a bold reconsideration of jazz's influence in Afro-modernist literature. Ranging from the New Negro Renaissance through the social movements of the 1960s, John Lowney articulates nothing less than a new history of Afro-modernist jazz writing. Jazz added immeasurably to the vocabulary for discussing radical internationalism and black modernism in leftist African American literature. Lowney examines how Claude McKay, Ann Petry, Langston Hughes, and many other writers employed jazz as both a critical social discourse and mode of artistic expression to explore the possibilities "and challenges "of black internationalism. The result is an expansive understanding of jazz writing sure to spur new debates"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-220) and index.

ISBN

• 9780252082863 ((paperback))
• 0252082869 ((paperback))
• 9780252041334 ((hardcover))
• 025204133X ((hardcover))

LCCN

2017017753

OCLC

983823871

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