In this book, A. Yemisi Jimoh demonstrates the critical influence of music on the fiction of various twentieth-century African American writers. Exploring novels and short stories by Toni Morrison, John Edgar Wideman, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and others, Jimoh shows how black musical traditions specifically Spirituals, Blues, and Jazz are used to shape characterizations and thematic content and to evince ideas, emotions, and experiences. The author s analysis situates the literary texts she discusses within the diverse social energies of their times and locates...
In this book, A. Yemisi Jimoh demonstrates the critical influence of music on the fiction of various twentieth-century African American writers. Explo...
