West of Harlem
Subtitle: African American writers and the borderlands
By: Emily Lutenski
Series: CultureAmerica; Culture America
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780700620869
Subjects: African Americans in literature; In literature; Race relations in literature; African American authors; History and criticism; American literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ntroduction: going to the territory; title: One who stayed. Home on the range: domesticity and a black woman's West; title: Those who went away. The two LAs: Los Angeles, Louisiana, and geographies of race; title: Revolt from the provinces: black politics of respectability and black sexual politics; title: Technicolor places: race and revolution in transnational America; title: One who arrived. Mapping the new American race: from New York to New Mexico-and beyond; title: Coda. The borderlands of blackness: the formation of a multiethnic American imagination.