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Signs and cities [electronic resource] : Black literary postmodernism / Madhu Dubey.

By: Dubey, Madhu.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003Description: ix, 284 p. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism | American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States | African Americans -- Intellectual life | City and town life in literature | African Americans in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/113/08996073 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
The postmodern moment in Black literary and cultural studies -- Books of life: postmodern uses of print literacy -- Urban writing as voyeurism: literature in the age of spectacle -- Reading as listening: the Southern folk aesthetic -- Reading as mediation: urbanity in the age of information.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-276) and index.

The postmodern moment in Black literary and cultural studies -- Books of life: postmodern uses of print literacy -- Urban writing as voyeurism: literature in the age of spectacle -- Reading as listening: the Southern folk aesthetic -- Reading as mediation: urbanity in the age of information.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.