The collage aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance
By: Rachel Farebrother.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754661986
Subjects: American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; African American aesthetics; Literature and anthropology -- United States -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Modernism (Literature) -- United States; African Americans in literature; Harlem Renaissance
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Boasian anthropology and the Harlem Renaissance; title: "[F]lung out in a jagged, uneven but progressive pattern": "culture-citizenship" in The new negro; title: "[A]dventuring through the pieces of a still unorganized mosaic": Jean Toomer's collage aesthetic in Cane; title: "Think[ing] in hieroglyphics": Zora Neale Hurston's cross-cultural aesthetic; title: Reading Zora Neale Hurston's textual synthesis in Jonah's gourd vine and Moses, man of the mountain.