Ghetto Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature: Writing Apartheid (Future of Minority Studies)

This book explores how six American writers have artistically responded to the racialization of U.S. frostbelt cities in the twentieth century. Using the critical tools of spatial theory, critical race theory, urban history and sociology, Simpson explains how these writers imagine the subjective response to the race-making power of space. 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 "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"-- Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Introduction....Pages 1-18 The Love of Colour in Me....Pages 19-41 To Make a Man Out of You....Pages 43-83 Something Tangible to Strike at....Pages 85-126 Enough to Make a Body Riot....Pages 127-173 In a World with No Address....Pages 175-218 And the Arc of His Witness Explained Nothing....Pages 219-247 Conclusion....Pages 249-252 Back Matter....Pages 253-302