African American Literature in Transition, 1930-1940: Volume 10

ISBN-13: 9781108472555 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 370 str.

Opis

This book illustrates African American writers' cultural production and political engagement despite the economic precarity of the 1930s.

Recenzje

'… an important collection that helps us rethink the presumptions about an artistically thriving decade in African American literary history.' Jesse Cook, MELUS

Spis treści

Introduction Eve Dunbar and Ayesha K. Hardison; Part I. Productive Precarity and Literary Realism: 1. Black excesses and deprivations in literature and photography of the 1930s Sharon Lynette Jones; 2. Arna Bontemps and black literary archives Emily Lutenski; 3. Black women's 1930s protest fiction Jennifer D. Williams; Part II. New Deal, New Methodologies: 4. Folklore, folk life and ethnography in African American Writing of the 1930s Robin Lucy; 5. New deal discourses J. J. Butts; 6. Black theatre archives and the making of a black dramatic tradition Kate Dossett; Part III. Cultivating (New) Black Readers: 7. Racial representation and the performance of 1930s African American literary history John Edgar Tidwell; 8. 1930s black print cultures Shawn Anthony Christian; Part IV. International, Black and Radical Visions: 9. Democracy unfinished: African Americans writing 'Africa' Nicole A. Waligora-Davis; 10. Langston Hughes and the 1930s: From Harlem to the USSR Cynthia Davis and Verner D. Mitchell; 11. Communism and African American literature in the great depression Nathaniel Mills.