Crossroads modernism : descent and emergence in African-American literary culture
By: Edward M. Pavlić.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Modernism (Literature) -- United States; African Americans in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-301) and index.
Table of contents: title: Down to the crossroads : a preface; title: "Compared to what?" : toward an African-American modernist discourse; title: Blues and the abstract truth : the politics of abandonment and democratic vistas of descent in  Afro-modernism; title: Come on in my kitchen : the communal underground in Zora Neale Hurston's diasporic modernism; title: Follow me into a solo : jazz, history, and reckoning with diasporic dissociation in James Baldwin and David Bradley.