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BL
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988679
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b743049
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Dubey, Madhu.
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Signs and cities : : Black literary postmodernism /\ Madhu Dubey.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, ©2003.
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1 online resource (ix, 284 pages)
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| ISBN
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0226167267
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: 0226167275
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: 0226167283
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: 1281125504
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: 9780226167268
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: 9780226167275
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: 9780226167282
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: 9781281125507
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-276) and index.
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| Contents
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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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Signs and Cities is the first book to consider what it means to speak of a postmodern moment in African-American literature. Dubey argues that for African-American studies, postmodernity best names a period, beginning in the early 1970s, marked by acute disenchantment with the promises of urban modernity and of print literacy. Dubey shows how black novelists from the last three decades have reconsidered the modern urban legacy and thus articulated a distinctly African-American strain of postmodernism. She argues that novelists such as Octavia Butler, Samuel Delany, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor.
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans-- Intellectual life.
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American literature-- African American authors-- History and criticism.
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American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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City and town life in literature.
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Postmodernism (Literature)-- United States.
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Littérature américaine-- Auteurs noirs américains-- Histoire et critique.
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Littérature américaine-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
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Noirs américains dans la littérature.
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Noirs américains-- Vie intellectuelle.
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Postmodernisme (Littérature)-- États-Unis.
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Vie urbaine dans la littérature.
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans-- Intellectual life.
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American literature-- African American authors.
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American literature.
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City and town life in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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810.9/113/08996073
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| LC Classification
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PS153.N5D83 2003eb
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