Playing the changes : from Afro-modernism to the jazz impulse, Craig Hansen Werner

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: (Re)Phrasings and the Study of African-American Literature
1.
Framing of Charles W. Chesnutt.
p. 3
2.
Endurance and Excavation: Afro-American Responses to Faulkner.
p. 27
3.
Brier Patch as (Post)modernist Myth: Morrison, Barthes, and Tar Baby As-Is.
p. 63
4.
On the Ends of Afro-Modernist Autobiography.
p. 84
5.
Black Dialectics: Kennedy, Bullins, Knight, Dumas, Lorde.
p. 103
6.
Black Blues in the City: The Voices of Gwendolyn Brooks.
p. 142
7.
Blues for T. S. Eliot and Langston Hughes: Melvin B. Tolson's Afro-Modernist Aesthetic.
p. 162
8.
Bigger's Blues: Native Son and the Articulation of Afro-American Modernism.
p. 183
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James Baldwin: Politics and the Gospel Impulse.
p. 212
10.
Leon Forrest and the AACM: The Jazz Impulse and the Chicago Renaissance.
p. 241
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Burden and the Binding Song: August Wilson's Neoclassical Jazz.
p. 263
Epilogue: Improvisations toward a New Phrasing: West Afrocentrism, Meta-Funk, and the Interiors of Jazz.
p. 288
Works Cited.
p. 305
Index.
p. 317

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