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The African American roots of modernism : from Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance / James Smethurst.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smethurst, James Edward.
- Series:
- John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
- The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Intellectual life--19th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
- African Americans--Segregation.
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Modernism (Literature)--United States.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Segregation in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The period between 1880 and 1918, at the end of which Jim Crow was firmly established and the Great Migration of African Americans was well under way, was not the nadir for black culture, James Smethurst reveals, but instead a time of profound response from African American intellectuals. The African American Roots of Modernism explores how the Jim Crow system triggered significant artistic and intellectual responses from African American writers, deeply marking the beginnings of literary modernism and, ultimately, notions of American modernity.In identifying the Jim Crow period
- Contents:
- Introduction: new forms and captive knights in the age of Jim Crow and mechanical reproduction
- Dueling banjos: African American dualism and strategies for Black representation at the turn of the century
- Remembering "those noble sons of ham": poetry, soldiers, and citizens at the end of reconstruction
- The Black city: the early Jim Crow migration narrative and the new territory of race
- Somebody else's civilization: African American writers, bohemia, and the new poetry
- A familiar and warm relationship: race, sexual freedom, and U.S. literary modernism.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-9313-015-7
- 979-88-908403-7-0
- 1-4696-0310-1
- 0-8078-7808-1
- OCLC:
- 731646883
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