From Du Bois to Van Vechten
Subtitle: The Early New Negro Literature, 1903-1926 (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: September 30, 1981
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780313224966
Subjects: Black studies; Literary studies: general; Literature: Texts; African American Literature; Social Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Sociology; USA; American - General; Ethnic Studies - General; Social Science / Ethnic Studies; 20th century; African American authors; African Americans; American literature; History and criticism; Intellectual life
First sentence: The emergence of Negro self-confidence in literature and art in the 1920s took place mainly because of the crisis in confidence regarding European and American "civilization."