The African American roots of modernism
Subtitle: from Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance
By: James Smethurst
Series: The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture; John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780807834633; 9780807871850
Subjects: Segregation in literature; Intellectual life; History and criticism; American literature; Modernism (Literature); Segregation; African American authors; African Americans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: new forms and captive knights in the age of Jim Crow and mechanical reproduction; title: Dueling banjos: African American dualism and strategies for Black representation at the turn of the century; title: Remembering "those noble sons of ham": poetry, soldiers, and citizens at the end of reconstruction; title: The Black city: the early Jim Crow migration narrative and the new territory of race; title: Somebody else's civilization: African American writers, bohemia, and the new poetry; title: A familiar and warm relationship: race, sexual freedom, and U.S. literary modernism.