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9781558496880

A Change in the Weather

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  • ISBN13:

    9781558496880

  • ISBN10:

    1558496882

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-06-15
  • Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr

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Summary

This book explores the impact of African American culture on modernist poetic language by placing black literature and culture at the center of an inquiry into the genealogy of avant-garde poetics. Geoffrey Jacques looks at how blackface minstrelsy, ragtime, vernacular languages, advertising copy, Freud's idea of the Uncanny, vaudeville, the cliche, and Tin Pan Alley-style song all influenced modernist poetry. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Geoffrey Jacques received his PhD in English from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York and currently teaches in the Writing Program at York College, CUNY. He has published many essays as well as three collections of poetry, including Just for a Thrill.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. vii
Introductionp. 1
Hauntedp. 27
Lyricp. 58
Minstrelp. 84
Vaudevillep. 110
Conclusionp. 149
Notesp. 161
Works Citedp. 167
Indexp. 179
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