Post-bellum, pre-Harlem
Subtitle: African American literature and culture, 1877-1919
By: edited by Barbara McCaskill and Caroline Gebhard
Contributors: McCaskill, Barbara; Gebhard, Caroline
Publisher: New York University Press; NYU Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: African American arts -- 19th century; African American arts -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-279) and index
Table of contents: title: Creative collaboration: as African American as sweet potato pie / Frances Smith Foster; title: Commemorative ceremonies and invented traditions: history, memory, and modernity in the "new Negro" novel of the Nadir / Carla L. Peterson; title: Landscapes of labor: race, religion, and Rhode Island in the painting of Edward Mitchell Bannister / Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw; title: "Manly husbands and womanly wives": the leadership of educator Lucy Craft Laney / Audrey Thomas McCluskey; title: Old and new issue servants: "race" men and women weigh in / Barbara Ryan; title: Savannah's Colored Tribune, the Reverend E.K. Love, and the sacred rebellion of uplift / Barbara McCaskill; title: A marginal man in Black Bohemia: James Weldon Johnson in the New York tenderloin / Robert M. Dowling; title: Jamming with Julius: Charles Chesnutt and the post-bellum-pre-Harlem blues / Barbara A. Baker; title: Rewriting Dunbar: realism, black women poets, and the genteel / Paula Bernat Bennett; title: Inventing a "Negro Literature": race, dialect, and gender in the early work of Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson / Caroline Gebhard; title: No excuses for our dirt: Booker T. Washington and a "new Negro" middle class / Philip J. Kowalski; title: War work, social work, community work: Alice Dunbar-Nelson, federal war work agencies, and Southern African American women / Nikki L. Brown; title: Antilynching plays: Angelina Weld Grimké, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and the evolution of African American drama / Koritha A. Mitchell; title: Henry Ossawa Tanner and W.E.B. Du Bois: African American art and "high culture" at the turn into the twentieth century / Margaret Crumpton Winter and Rhonda Reymond; title: The Folk, The School, and the Marketplace: Locations of Culture in The souls of black folk / Andrew J. Scheiber