African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930

Herausgeber: Thaggert, Miriam; Farebrother, Rachel

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Produktbeschreibung

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 explores the range and diversity of Black cultural production. Emphasizing a generative contrast between the ephemeral qualities of periodicals, clothes, and décor and the relative fixity of canonical texts, this volume captures in its dynamics a cultural movement that was fluid and expansive. Chapters by leading scholars are grouped into four sections: 'Habitus, Sound, Fashion'; 'Spaces: Chronicles of Harlem and Beyond'; 'Uplift Renewed: Religion, Protest, and Education,' and 'Serial Reading: Magazines and Periodical Culture.'

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 782g
• ISBN-13: 9781108834162
• ISBN-10: 1108834167
• Artikelnr.: 62847140

Inhaltsangabe

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.