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The African American roots of modernism : from Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance / James Smethurst

Catalog Data

Author:
Smethurst, James Edward  Search this
Physical description:
x, 252 p. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
2011
C2011
19th century
20th century
Contents:
Introduction: new forms and captive knights in the age of Jim Crow and mechanical reproduction -- Dueling banjos: African American dualism and strategies for Black representation at the turn of the century -- Remembering "those noble sons of ham": poetry, soldiers, and citizens at the end of reconstruction -- The Black city: the early Jim Crow migration narrative and the new territory of race -- Somebody else's civilization: African American writers, bohemia, and the new poetry -- A familiar and warm relationship: race, sexual freedom, and U.S. literary modernism
Topic:
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism  Search this
Segregation in literature  Search this
African Americans--Segregation  Search this
African Americans--Intellectual life  Search this
Modernism (Literature)  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_986171