Ghetto images in twentieth-century American literature

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"In this comprehensive work, Tyrone R. Simpson, II, explores how six American writers--Anzia Yezierska, Michael Gold, Hubert Selby Jr., Chester Himes, Gloria Naylor, and John Edgar Wideman--have artistically responded to the racialization of U.S. frostbelt cities in the twentieth century. By using the critical tools of spatial theory, critical race theory, urban history, and urban sociology, Simpson accounts for how these writers imagine the subjective response to the race-making power of space"--

subjects: Segregation in literature,  Jewish authors,  Inner cities in literature,  History and criticism,  Minorities in literature,  LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General,  African American authors,  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies,  American fiction,  In literature,  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban,  Sociology, urban,  Literary studies: from c 1900,  English,  Literature,  Urban communities

Places: Snowbelt States

Times: 20th century