The shadow and the act
Subtitle: black intellectual practice, jazz improvisation, and philosophical pragmatism
By: Walton M. Muyumba.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226554235; 9780226554242
Subjects: Ellison, Ralph -- Criticism and interpretation; Baldwin, James, -- 1924-1987 -- Criticism and interpretation; Baraka, Imamu Amiri, -- 1934- -- Criticism and interpretation; American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; Jazz in literature; Jazz -- History and criticism; Improvisation (Music)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: vamping til ready; title: Movement I: Three ways of looking at a yardbird: Charlie Parker and the theorization of jazz improvisation in the work of Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Le Roi Jones/Amiri Baraka; title: Movement II: Black is, black ain't: violence, black masculinity, and the novel as democratic symbol; title: Movement III: Cutting session: Baldwin as intellectual prizefighter, Baldwin as improvising intellectual; title: Movement IV: Improvising over the changes: improvisation as intellectual and aesthetic practice in the transitional poems of Le Roi Jones/Amiri Baraka; title: Coda.