southern violence and the blues tradition Gussow, Adam. creator text bibliography ilu Chicago University of Chicago Press 2002 monographic eng

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341 p. "I'm tore down" -- Lynching and the birth of a blues tradition -- "Make my getaway" -- Southern violence and blues entrepreneurship in W.C. Handy's Father of the blues -- Dis(re)memberment blues -- Narratives of abjection and redress -- "Shoot myself a cop" -- Mamie Smith's "Crazy blues" as social text -- Guns, knives, and buckets of blood -- The predicament of blues culture -- "The blade already crying in my flesh" -- Zora Neale Hurston's blues narratives. HKBU library Adam Gussow. YT2025 M08 African Americans Southern States Intellectual life African Americans Southern States Social conditions Blues (Music) Southern States History and criticism Blues (Music) in literature Violence in literature Race relations in literature American literature African American authors History and criticism Violence Southern States History Southern States Intellectual life Southern States Race relations E185.92 G982 S 2002 0226310973 0226310981 9780226310978 9780226310985 SDU 020906