Black Resonance, 2013, p.27
2013
Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Vivid Lyricism: Richard Wright and Bessie Smith’s Blues
- Ist Teil von
- Black Resonance, 2013, p.27
- Ort / Verlag
- Rutgers University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2013
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- This chapter highlights Richard Wright’s alignment of his work with Bessie Smith’s, thus establishing the relationship between male writers and female singers that the next two chapters will also explore. Although Wright’s fiction often depicts black song as a feminized threat to black male resistance, his unpublished 1941 essay “Memories of My Grandmother” attunes us to moments in Wright’s work when feminized lyricism itself functions as a medium of resistance. Wright uses such lyricism to protest black alienation from U.S. society in general and from the domain of the literary in particular. His widely neglected film ofNative Son(1951)
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 0813562503, 9780813562506Titel-ID: cdi_jstor_books_j_ctt5hjbqk_5
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Aesthetic judgment, Aesthetics, African American culture, African American studies, African Americans, American minorities, American studies, Anthropology, Applied anthropology, Artists, Arts, Axiology, Behavioral sciences, Black people, Cultural anthropology, Cultural studies, Economic disciplines, Economics, Employment, Ethnic groups, Ethnography, Ethnology, Fiction, Film studies, Labor economics, Literary genres, Literature, Lyricism, Movies, Music, Music genres, Musical performance, Musicians, Novels, Occupations, Performing arts, Philosophy, Popular music, Popular songs, Religious songs, Singers, Singing, Womens songs