Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism

by Madhu Dubey

Book Overview

Signs and Cities is the first book to consider what it means to speak of a postmodern moment in African-American literature. Dubey argues that for African-American studies, postmodernity best names a period, beginning in the early 1970s, marked by acute disenchantment with the promises of urban modernity and of print literacy.

Dubey shows how black novelists from the last three decades have reconsidered the modern urban legacy and thus...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226167275
• ISBN13: 9780226167275
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 293 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"