Jazz Fiction Anthology

Name: Jazz Fiction Anthology
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ISBN: 9780253221377

ISBN-10: 0253221374

ISBN-13: 9780253221377

Edition: 2009

Authors: Sascha Feinstein, David Rife

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A gathering of the best jazz fiction from the 1920s to the present, this anthology includes 20th-century fiction by Eudora Welty, James Baldwin, Richard Yates, and others, plus important recent work from writers such as Yusef Komunyakaa, Xu Xi, and Amiri Baraka. Together these artists demonstrate the strong influence of jazz on fiction. That influence can be felt in prose styles shaped by jazz-freewheeling, dramatic, conversational, improvisatory; in stories of players and listeners searching for what lies beyond the music's aesthetic power; and in the ambience of the jazz performance as captured by the written word. What sounds throughout these stories is the universal voice of humanity…

Book details

List price: $28.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 10/2/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Sascha Feinstein is Professor of English at Lycoming College, where he co-directs the Creative Writing Program and edits Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz & Literature. He is author of Jazz Poetry: From the 1920s to the Present (IUP, 1991) and has won the Hayden Carruth Award for his poetry collection, Misterioso. He lives in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.