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Invisible Memories: Black Feminist Literature And Its Affective Flights, Jamie Ann Rogers
Invisible Memories: Black Feminist Literature And Its Affective Flights, Jamie Ann Rogers
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Sherwood Anderson’S "Shadowy Figure": Rural Masculinity In The Modernizing Midwest, Andy Oler
Sherwood Anderson’S "Shadowy Figure": Rural Masculinity In The Modernizing Midwest, Andy Oler
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“Their Song Filled The Whole Night”: Not Without Laughter, Hinterlands Jazz, And Rural Modernity, Andy Oler
“Their Song Filled The Whole Night”: Not Without Laughter, Hinterlands Jazz, And Rural Modernity, Andy Oler
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This essay reads the rural Midwest as a modern space in which the sounds and material apparatus of early-twentieth-century jazz music compose the cultural field of Langston Hughes’s 1930 novel Not Without Laughter. It argues that Not Without Laughter does not attempt to supplant the more conventional urban modernities of Harlem and Chicago. Rather, the novel constructs a rural alternative that forms ambivalence through accumulation, both filling and exceeding the novel’s spaces and the experiences of its characters. Approaching Hughes’s novel through the sonic ambivalences of modern rurality evidences how some authors transgressed the supposed boundaries of the Harlem …