Post-bellum, pre-Harlem : African American literature and culture, 1877-1919 / edited by Barbara McCaskill and Caroline Gebhard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McCaskill, Barbara.

Gebhard, Caroline.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American arts--19th century.

African American arts.

African American arts--20th century.

Physical Description:

xiv, 298 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2006]

Contents:

Part I Reimagining the Past

1 Creative Collaboration: As African American as Sweet Potato Pie / Frances Smith Foster 17

2 Commemorative Ceremonies and Invented Traditions: History, Memory, and Modernity in the "New Negro" Novel of the Nadir / Carla L. Peterson 34

Part II Meeting Freedom: Self-Invention, Artistic Innovation, and Race Progress (1870s-1880s)

3 Landscapes of Labor: Race, Religion, and Rhode Island in the Painting of Edward Mitchell Bannister / Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw 59

4 "Manly Husbands and Womanly Wives": The Leadership of Educator Lucy Craft Laney / Audrey Thomas McCluskey 74

5 Old and New Issue Servants: "Race" Men and Women Weigh In / Barbara Ryan 89

6 Savannah's Colored Tribune, the Reverend E. K. Love, and the Sacred Rebellion of Uplift / Barbara McCaskill 101

Part III Encountering Jim Crow: African American Literature and the Mainstream (1890s)

7 A Marginal Man in Black Bohemia: James Weldon Johnson in the New York Tenderloin / Robert M. Dowling 117

8 Jamming with Julius: Charles Chesnutt and the Post-Bellum-Pre-Harlem Blues / Barbara A. Baker 133

9 Rewriting Dunbar: Realism, Black Women Poets, and the Genteel / Paula Bernat Bennett 146

10 Inventing a "Negro Literature": Race, Dialect, and Gender in the Early Work of Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson / Caroline Gebhard 162

Part IV Turning the Century: New Political, Cultural, and Personal Aesthetics (1900-1917)

11 No Excuses for Our Dirt: Booker T. Washington and a "New Negro" Middle Class / Philip J. Kowalski 181

12 War Work, Social Work, Community Work: Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Federal War Work Agencies, and Southern African American Women / Nikki L. Brown 197

13 Antilynching Plays: Angelina Weld Grimke, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and the Evolution of African American Drama / Koritha A. Mitchell 210

14 Henry Ossawa Tanner and W. E. B. Du Bois: African American Art and "High Culture" at the Turn into the Twentieth Century / Margaret Crumpton Winter, Rhonda Reymond 231

15 The Folk, the School, and the Marketplace: Locations of Culture in The Souls of Black Folk / Andrew J. Scheiber 250

Topical List of Selected Works 269.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-279) and index.

ISBN:

0814731678

0814731686

OCLC:

62766073

Publisher Number:

9780814731673

9780814731680