West of Harlem : African American Writers and the Borderlands / Emily Lutenski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lutenski, Emily, author.

Series:

Culture America.

CultureAmerica

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans in literature.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

Race relations in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 pages)

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2023.

Summary:

West of Harlem relocates the "New Negro" to the new landscape of the borderlands West, examining the work of writers like Arna Bontemps, Anita Scott Coleman, Langston Hughes, Wallace Thurman, and Jean Toomer and shows that debates over cultural nationalism and uplift long considered central to New Negro politics and culture were even more complicated, and that fantasies of the West as both a deracinated frontier and a hybrid borderlands are undermined by black western experience.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Going to the Territory

Part I: One Who Stayed

1. Home on the Range: Domesticity and a Black Woman's West

Part II: Those Who Went Away

2. The Two LAs: Los Angeles, Louisiana, and Geographics of Race

3. Revolt from the Provinces: Black Politics of Respectability and Black Sexual Politics

4. Technicolor Places Race and Revolution in Transnational America

Part III: One Who Arrived

5. Mapping the New American Race: From New York to New Mexico-and Beyond

Coda

The Borderlands of Blackness: The Formation of a Multiethnic American Imagination

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Lutenski, Emily West of Harlem

ISBN:

9780700635610

0700635610