Aural fictions: Sound in African American literature

This dissertation explores the importance of representations of sound in the African American literary tradition. Beginning with Frederick Douglass's descriptions of the slave songs and working through depictions of jazz in the early moments of the Civil Rights movement, I show that the aural d...

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Other Authors: Levander, Caroline
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1911/62185