African American Literature in Transition - Series page

pp ii-ii

African American Literature in Transition, 1930–1940 - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

Figures

pp vii-vii

Contributors

pp viii-viii

Preface

pp ix-x

Chronology, 1930–1940

pp xi-xvi

Introduction

pp 1-30

Part I - Productive Precarity and Literary Realism

pp 31-108

Chapter 1 - Black Excesses and Deprivations in Literature and Photography of the 1930s

pp 33-58

Chapter 2 - Arna Bontemps and Black Literary Archives

pp 59-85

Chapter 3 - Black Women’s 1930s Protest Fiction

pp 86-108

Part II - New Deal, New Methodologies

pp 109-208

Chapter 4 - Folklore, Folk Life, and Ethnography in African American Writing of the 1930s

pp 111-138

Chapter 5 - New Deal Discourses

pp 139-169

Chapter 6 - Black Theatre Archives and the Making of a Black Dramatic Tradition

pp 170-208

Part III - Cultivating (New) Black Readers

pp 209-262

Chapter 7 - Racial Representation and the Performance of 1930s African American Literary History

pp 211-237

Chapter 8 - Black Print Culture of the 1930s

pp 238-262

Part IV - International, Black, and Radical Visions

pp 263-348

Chapter 9 - Democracy Unfinished: African Americans Writing “Africa”

pp 265-295

Chapter 10 - Langston Hughes and the 1930s: From Harlem to the USSR

pp 296-320

Chapter 11 - Black Cultural (Inter)nationalism

pp 321-348

Index

pp 349-352