African American Literature in Transition, 1900–1910
African American Literature in Transition, 1900–1910
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USDAfrican American Literature in Transition, 1900–1910 offers a wide ranging, multi-disciplinary approach to early twentieth century African American literature and culture. It showcases the literary and cultural productions that took shape in the critical years after Reconstruction, but before the Harlem Renaissance, the period known as the nadir of African American history. It undercovers the dynamic work being done by Black authors, painters, photographers, poets, editors, boxers, and entertainers to shape 'New Negro' identities and to chart a new path for a new century. The book is structured into four key areas: Black publishing and print culture; innovations in genre and form; the race, class and gender politics of literary and cultural production; and new geographies of Black literary history. These overarching themes, along with the introduction of established figures and movement, alongside lesser known texts and original research, offer a radical re-conceptualization of this critical, but understudied period in African American literary history.
- Offers a wide-ranging inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the development of African American literature and culture at the beginning of the twentieth century
- Structured by 4 key areas: Publishing, Genre, Racial/Gender/Class politics, and Geography
- Showcases the fertile work done by black painters, photographers, poets, newspaper editors, boxers, and entertainers to shape 'New Negro' identity
Product details
July 2021Hardback
9781108422086
378 pages
235 × 158 × 24 mm
0.66kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of images
- Introduction Shirley Moody-Turner
- Part I. Transition in African American Authorship, Publishing and the Visual Arts:
- 1. Black bibliographers and the category of negro authorship Laura E. Helton
- 2. Transitions in African American book publishing and print culture Alisha Knight
- 3. Re-evaluating African American art before the Harlem renaissance Rhonda Reymond
- Part II. New Negro Aesthetic and Transitions in Genre and Form:
- 4. African American novels and new slavery in the new south M. Giulia Fabi
- 5. Anti-lynching poetry and the poetics of protest Laura Vrana
- 6. The politics of performance, character, and literary genre in transition April Logan
- Part III. Modernist Masculinities and Transitions in Black Leadership:
- 7. Charting the tensions between optimism and despair at mid-decade Hanna Wallinger
- 8. W. E. B. Du Bois and transitions in black intellectual thought Keith Byerman
- 9. Celebrity and black masculinity at the turn into the twentieth century Jeffrey Leak
- Part IV. Remapping the Turn of the Twentieth Century:
- 10. Can the subaltern speak through Alain Locke and Paul Laurence Dunbar? Jeffrey Stewart
- 11. Race and manhood in African American representations of the frontier James Leiker
- 12. Narratives of black and Chinese citizenship after Plessy v. Ferguson Edlie Wong
- 13. Black transpacific culture and the migratory imagination Vince Schleitwiler.
