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By investigating how cars can function as female space, reflect female identity, and reshape female agency, this engaging study opens up new angles from which to approach fiction by and about women and traces new directions in the intersection of literature, technology, and gender.

Automobiles --- American fiction --- Automobiles in literature. --- Social aspects --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- American literature --- Roman américain --- Automobiles dans la littérature --- Ecrits de femmes américains --- Histoire et critique --- Aspect social

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Countering previous studies of violent images based on representational and, consequently, moralistic assumptions, which, the author argues, inevitably reinforce the very violence they critique. He explains how violent images work upon the world.

American fiction --- Violence in literature. --- Violence in motion pictures. --- Roman américain --- Violence dans la littérature --- Violence au cinéma --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Roman américain --- Violence dans la littérature --- Violence au cinéma --- Violence in literature --- Violence in motion pictures --- Violence in moving-pictures --- History and criticism --- Motion pictures

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For a while, tracing African roots in the artistic creations of blacks in the New World tended to generate much attention as if to suggest that the New World does not have profound impact on their creative spirit. In addition, few studies have tried to construct an interpretive model through which an array of works by New World writers could be meaningfully explored on the basis of their African diasporic identity. In Folklore in New World Black Fiction, Chiji Akọma offers an interpretive model for the reading of the African New World novel focusing on folklore, not as an ingredient, but as the basis for the narratives. The works examined do not contain folklore materials; they are folklore, constituted by the intersections of African oral narrative aesthetics, New World sensibility, and the written tradition. Specifically Akọma looks at four African Caribbean and African American novelists, Roy A.K. Heath, Wilson Harris, Toni Morrison, and Jean Toomer. The book seeks to expand the understanding of the forms of folklore as it pertains to black texts. For one, it broadens the dimensions of folklore by looking beyond the oral world of the “simple folk” to the kinds of narrative sophistication associated with writing; it also asserts the importance of performance art in folklore analysis. The study demonstrates the durability of the black aesthetic over artistic forms.

American fiction --- Literature and folklore --- African American oral tradition. --- African Americans --- African Americans in literature. --- Folklore in literature. --- Hermeneutics. --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- Intellectual life. --- African American intellectuals --- Roman américain --- Littérature et folklore --- Noirs américains dans la littérature --- Folklore --- Auteurs noirs américains --- États-Unis --- Dans la littérature --- Histoire et critique --- 20e siècle

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American fiction --- African Americans --- Music in literature. --- African Americans in literature. --- Roman américain --- Noirs américains --- Musique dans la littérature --- Noirs américains dans la littérature --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Music --- Intellectual life. --- Race identity. --- Ecrivains noirs américains --- Histoire et critique --- Musique --- Vie intellectuelle --- Identité ethnique --- Musique et littérature --- Littérature américaine --- Musique noire américaine --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Roman américain --- Noirs américains --- Musique dans la littérature --- Noirs américains dans la littérature --- Ecrivains noirs américains --- Identité ethnique --- Musique et littérature. --- Auteurs noirs américains. --- Histoire et critique. --- Musique et littérature. --- Littérature américaine --- Musique noire américaine --- Auteurs noirs américains.