African American literature in transition, 1920-1930 / edited by Miriam Thaggert, SUNY-Buffalo ; Rachel Farebrother, Swansea University.

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"African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930 presents original essays that map ideological, historical, and cultural shifts in the 1920s. Complicating the familiar reading of the 1920s as a decade that began with a spectacular boom and ended with disillusionment and bust, the collection exp...

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Uniform Title:African American literature in transition ; v.9.
Other Authors: Thaggert, Miriam (Editor)
Farebrother, Rachel (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Series:African American literature in transition ; v.9.
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
African Americans in literature.
Noirs américains > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
American literature.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
American literature > African American authors.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Physical Description:xx, 369 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction. Expecting more. African American literature in transition, 1920-1930
  • New Negro literary décor. Competing tastes in the 1920s
  • The new Negro movement's recording imaginary
  • Sartorial self-fashioning in the Harlem Renaissance
  • Going Dutch. From Renaissance Haarlem to the Harlem Renaissance
  • The unmaking of the new Negro mecca
  • Subversions of Boasian anthropology in Zora Neale Hurston's great migration fiction and ethnography
  • W. E. B. Du Bois and the fluid subject. Dark Princess and the splendid transnational in the Harlem Renaissance
  • "The sinful babel of the airshaft". Rudolph Fisher's fiction and religion, urban space, and modernity in the Harlem Renaissance
  • Marcus Garvey. Popular culture and Black liberation
  • Progression or regression of the Black race? Historically Black colleges and racial uplift in Nella Larsen's Quicksand
  • The Midnight Motion Picture Company goes to Europe. The Harlem Renaissance and global white supremacy
  • African American magazine modernism.