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Race and the modern artist / edited by Heather Hathaway, Josef Jǎrab, and Jeffrey Melnick.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- W.E.B. Du Bois Institute (Series)
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race relations in literature.
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Modernism (Literature)--United States.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The essays in this collection examine the disputed relationships between modernity, modernism and American cultural diversity and thus add an important dimension to our understanding of 20th-century literature.
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; Introduction: Modernity, Modernism, and the American Ethnic Minority Artist; T.S. Eliot, B. A. Botkin, and the Politics of Cultural Representation: Folklore, Modernity, and Pluralism; Four Types of Writing under Modern Conditions; or, Black Writers and "Populist Modernism"; Exploring "Something New": The "Modernism" of Claude McKay's Harlem Shadows; The Strong Men Gittin' Stronger: Sterling Brown's Southern Road and the Representation and Re-Creation of the Southern Folk Voice; Waldo Frank, Jean Toomer, and the Critique of Racial Voyeurism
- "Among Negroes": Gertrude Stein and African America; A Black Man in Jewface; Incognito Ergo Sum: "Ex" Marks the Spot in Cahan, Johnson, Larsen, and Yezierska; A Jewish New World in Jacob Glatshteyn's "Sheeny Mike"; Beware of Signs; or, How to Tell the Living from the Dead: Orality and Writing in the Work of Pedro Pietri; Centralizing the Marginal: Prolegomena to a Study of Boundaries in Contemporary African American Fiction; When All Met Together in One Room: Josef Jarab Interviews Allen Ginsberg; INDEX
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2003.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-239) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-028415-3
- 0-19-772578-3
- 0-19-518494-7
- 1-280-47143-3
- 0-19-535262-9
- 1-60256-308-X
- OCLC:
- 191038339
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