Ghetto Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature: Writing Apartheid

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.

Author: Kenneth A. Loparo
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 01/17/2012
Pages: 302
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780230115934

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2012

About the Author
TYRONE R. SIMPSON II is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Urban Studies, Africana Studies, and American Culture at Vassar College, USA.