Conjuring the folk : forms of modernity in African America /
Nicholls, David,1965-
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,
c2000.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-169) and index.
Conjuring the folk -- Modernism and the spectral folk: Jean Toomer's Cane -- Folklore and migrant labor: Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and men -- The folk as alternative modernity: Claude McKay's Banana bottom -- Rural modernity, migration, and the gender of autonomy: the novels of George Wylie Henderson -- The folk, the race, and class consciousness: Richard Wright's 12 million Black voices -- Conclusion: local histories and world historical narrative.
American literature
Literature and folklore
American literature
Modernism (Literature)
African Americans in literature.
African Americans
Folklore in literature.