Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Vicious Modernism
- I The Legendary Capital: The 1920s and 1930s
- II The Emerging Ghetto: The 1940s and 1950s
- III The Inner City: The 1960s and 1970s
- 9 The Inner City
- 10 Jitterbugging in the Streets
- 11 Echoes in a Burnt Building
- 12 Mumbo Jumbo
- Epilogue: Black Harlem and the Literary Imagination
- Appendix 1 A Checklist of Black Harlem in Poetry
- Appendix 2 A Checklist of Black Harlem in Novels
- Notes
- Index
11 - Echoes in a Burnt Building
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Vicious Modernism
- I The Legendary Capital: The 1920s and 1930s
- II The Emerging Ghetto: The 1940s and 1950s
- III The Inner City: The 1960s and 1970s
- 9 The Inner City
- 10 Jitterbugging in the Streets
- 11 Echoes in a Burnt Building
- 12 Mumbo Jumbo
- Epilogue: Black Harlem and the Literary Imagination
- Appendix 1 A Checklist of Black Harlem in Poetry
- Appendix 2 A Checklist of Black Harlem in Novels
- Notes
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- Vicious ModernismBlack Harlem and the Literary Imagination, pp. 178 - 196Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990