African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930: Volume 9

ISBN-13: 9781108834162 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 390 str.

Opis

This book analyses historical, literary, and cultural shifts in African American literature from the 1920s-1930s.

Spis treści

Introduction: Expecting more: African American literature in transition, 1920-30 Miriam Thaggert and Rachel Farebrother; Part I. Habitus, Sound, Fashion: 1. New Negro literary décor: Competing tastes in 1920s Cherene Sherrard-Johnson; 2. The new Negro movement's recording imaginary Sonnet Retman; 3. Sartorial self-fashioning in the Harlem renaissance Kimberly Lamm; Part II. Space: Chronicles of Harlem and Beyond: 4. Going Dutch: From renaissance Haarlem to the Harlem renaissance Michael Soto; 5. The unmaking of the new Mecca Shannon King; 6. Subversions of Boasian objectivity in Zora Neale Hurston's great migration fiction and ethnography M. Genevieve West; 7. W. E. B. Du Bois and the fluid subject: Dark princess and the splendid transnational in the Harlem renaissance Inés Valdez; Part III. 'Uplift' Renewed: Religion, Protest and Education: 8. 'The sinful babel of the airshaft': Rudolph fisher's fiction and religion, urban space and modernity in the Harlem renaissance Rachel Farebrother; 9. Marcus Garvey: Popular culture and black liberation Heather D. Russell; 10. Progression or reversion of the black race?: Historically black colleges in Nella Larsen's Quicks and Angela Watkins; Part IV. Serial Reading: Magazines and Periodical Culture: 11. The midnight motion picture company goes to Europe: The Harlem renaissance and global white supremacy Adam McKible; 12. African American magazine modernism John K. Young.