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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gebhard, Caroline.

McCaskill, Barbara.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American arts--20th century.

African American arts.

African American arts--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 298 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : New York University Press, [2006]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The years between the collapse of Reconstruction and the end of World War I mark a pivotal moment in African American cultural production. Christened the "Post-Bellum-Pre-Harlem" era by the novelist Charles Chesnutt, these years look back to the antislavery movement and forward to the artistic flowering and racial self-consciousness of the Harlem Renaissance. Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem offers fresh perspectives on the literary and cultural achievements of African American men and women during this critically neglected, though vitally important, period of our nation's past. Using a wide range of d

Contents:

Creative collaboration: as African American as sweet potato pie / Frances Smith Foster

Commemorative ceremonies and invented traditions: history, memory, and modernity in the "new Negro" novel of the Nadir / Carla L. Peterson

Landscapes of labor: race, religion, and Rhode Island in the painting of Edward Mitchell Bannister / Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw

"Manly husbands and womanly wives": the leadership of educator Lucy Craft Laney / Audrey Thomas McCluskey

Old and new issue servants: "race" men and women weigh in / Barbara Ryan

Savannah's Colored Tribune, the Reverend E. K. Love, and the sacred rebellion of uplift / Barbara McCaskill

A marginal man in Black Bohemia: James Weldon Johnson in the New York tenderloin / Robert M. Dowling

Jamming with Julius: Charles Chesnutt and the post-bellum-pre-Harlem blues / Barbara A. Baker

Rewriting Dunbar: realism, black women poets, and the genteel / Paula Bernat Bennett

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

No excuses for our dirt: Booker T. Washington and a "new Negro" middle class / Philip J. Kowalski

War work, social work, community work: Alice Dunbar-Nelson, federal war work agencies, and Southern African American women / Nikki L. Brown

Antilynching plays: Angelina Weld Grimke, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and the evolution of African American drama / Koritha A. Mitchell

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 and Rhonda Reymond

The Folk, The School, and the Marketplace: Locations of Culture in The souls of black folk / Andrew J. Scheiber.

Notes:

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

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780814759776

0814759777

9780814764213

0814764215

OCLC:

780425922