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Author:

Ryan, Jennifer D., 1974-

Title:

Post-jazz poetics : a social history / Jennifer D. Ryan.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xi, 225 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

American poetry--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American poetry--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Jazz in literature
Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.
African American women--Intellectual life--20th century.
Feminism and literature--United States--History--20th century.
Poetics--History--20th century.
Music and literature--History--20th century.
Williams, Sherley Anne,--1944-1999--Criticism and interpretation.
Sanchez, Sonia,--1934---Criticism and interpretation.
Cortez, Jayne--Criticism and interpretation.
Coleman, Wanda--Criticism and interpretation.
Mullen, Harryette Romell--Criticism and interpretation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: How do I make that sound? a new feminist poetics -- Finding her voice: the body politics of Sherley Anne Williams's blues -- Nationhood re-formed: revolutionary style and practice in Sonia Sanchez's jazz poetics -- Talk to me: ecofeminist disruptions in the jazz poetry of Jayne Cortez -- Shape-shifting: the urban geographies of Wanda Coleman's jazz poetry -- Jazz's word for it: Harryette Mullen and the politics of intellectualism -- Conclusion: "Too many books for our eyes": future politics, future poetries.

ISBN:

0230623158 (alk. paper)
9780230623156 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)437300371

LCCN:

2009041140

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)