Title: Conjuring the folk
Description: "In a series of revisionary readings, Nicholls studies how the folk is shaped by the ideology of form. He examines the presence of a spectral folk in Toomer's modernist pastiche, Cane, and explores how Hurston presents folklore as a contemporary language of resistance in her ethnography, Mules and Men. In Claude McKay's naturalistic romance, Banana Bottom, Nicholls discovers the figuration of an alternative modernity in the heroine's recovery of her lost folk identity.

He unearths the individualist ethos of Booker T. Washington in two novels by George Wylie Henderson and reveals how Richard Wright's photo-documentary history, 12 Million Black Voices, places the folk in a Marxian narrative of modernization that is moving toward class-consciousness."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: African Americans in literature, African American authors, Intellectual life, History and criticism, American literature, Folklore in literature, Modernism (Literature), Folklore, Literature and folklore, African Americans, History, Noirs américains, Littérature et folklore, Histoire, Literatur, Folkloristik, Histoire et critique, Modernisme (Littérature), Folklore dans la littérature, Auteurs noirs américains, Noirs américains dans la littérature, Littérature américaine, American literature, african american authors, history and criticism, American literature, history and criticism, 20th century
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century