Reading the Renaissance : Black Women's Literary Reception and Taste in Chicago, 1932-1953.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Unger, Mary I.

Series:

Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2025.

Summary:

From 1932 to 1953, during the Black Chicago Renaissance, numerous literary events were held within and for the city's Black community.In book clubs, public forums, print reviews, little magazines, local programming, and other public venues, Black women in particular debated the role of literature in racial uplift efforts, set literary standards.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Introduction: Race, Gender, and Reading in the Black Chicago Renaissance

Chapter 1: "A Useful and Necessary Part" Vivian Harsh's Community Reading

Chapter 2: Bad Girl Brooks Refusing the Respectable Reader in Popular Poetry

Chapter 3: For My People Bronzeville's Bookstores and the Making of Modern Black Readership

Chapter 4: "A Magazine for All Americans" Negro Story's Wartime Reading

Chapter 5: The Book Circle Black Women Readers and Middlebrow Taste in Bronzeville

Conclusion: Legacies of Black Women's Reading

Notes

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-68575-134-2

OCLC:

1521494435