The Muse in Bronzeville
Subtitle: African American Creative Expression in Chicago, 1932-1950
By: Robert Bone and Richard A. Courage
Contributors: Courage, Richard A., 1946-
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780813550435; 9780813550442
Subjects: American literature; History; History and criticism; African Americans; Intellectual life
Description: A dynamic reappraisal of a neglected period in African American cultural history from the early 1930s to the cold war, and the first comprehensive critical study of the creative awakenting that occurred on Chicago's South Side -- from cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. An account of origins; title: The Tuskegee connection; title: Charles S. Johnson and the Parkian Tradition; title: The new negro in Chicago; title: Pt. 2. Bronzeville's social muse; title: Year of transition; title: Birthing the blues and other Black musical forms; title: Bronzeville and the documentary spirit; title: The documentary eye; title: Bronzeville's "writing clan"; title: Bronzeville and the novel; title: Bronzeville and the poets; title: The wheel turns; title: Appendix A: artists of Bronzeville; title: Appendix B: African Americans employed by Illinois Writers' Project.