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This book examines what literature and film reveal about the urban USA. Subjects include culture, class, race, crime, and disaster.
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The City in African-American Literature
Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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More recent African-American literature has also been noteworthy for its largely affirmative vision of urban life. Amiri Baraka's 1981 essay "Black Literature a
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The city's 'Americanness' has been disputed throughout US history. Pronounced dead in the late twentieth century, cities have enjoyed a renaissance in the twent
Bearing the Bad News
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Critic and poet Pinsker offers 11 essays exploring such topics as the decline of formative reading, unifying themes in American literature, the cultural value o