Geographies of melancholia and complex pleasure : Black flânerie in Edward P. Jones's "A New Man" and "Lost in the City"
Vol.51,No.1(2025)
Edward P. Jones; African American literature; flânerie; Black geographies; melancholia; pleasure; loss; black feminism
227–248
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