African American literature in transition ; 9: African American literature in transition 1920 1930 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.