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Turning south again : re-thinking modernism/re-reading Booker T. / Houston A. Baker, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baker, Houston A., Jr., 1943-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915--Political and social views.
- Washington, Booker T.
- Tuskegee Institute.
- African Americans--Southern States--Social conditions.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States--History.
- Modernism (Literature)--Southern States.
- Modernism (Literature).
- African Americans--Southern States--Intellectual life.
- Southern States--Race relations.
- Southern States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (127 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2001.
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, [2001]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Inaugurates a new southern studies with Black experience at the center, through a re-examination of the career of Booker T. Washington, showing incarceration to be the central characteristic of African-American life, even in the case of Tuskegee.
- Contents:
- Prologue: blue men, black writing, and southern revisions
- Modernism's performative masquerade: Mr. Washington, Tuskegee, and Black-south mobility
- A concluding meditation on plantations, ships, and Black modernism.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [99]-104) and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed March 24, 2023)
- ISBN:
- 9786613061669
- 9780822326953
- 0822326957
- 9780822380054
- 0822380056
- 9781283061667
- 128306166X
- OCLC:
- 191222453
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