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Swinging the Vernacular

Jazz and African American Modernist Literature

By Michael Borshuk

Series: Studies in African American History and Culture 

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Michael Borshuk is Assistant Professor of African American literature in the department of English at Texas Tech University. He has published book chapters and critical articles on Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, William Carlos Williams and Mina Loy. He also writes on jazz regularly for Coda Magazine.
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