African American Literature in Transition, 1930-1940

Herausgeber: Dunbar, Eve; Hardison, Ayesha K.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The volume is for scholars and researchers interested in African American and American literature and history. Chapters explore African American writing during the Great Depression to examine 1930s Black life, culture, and politics and, ultimately, to document the ways Black artists and everyday people managed their economic vulnerability.

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Produktdetails

• African American Literature in Transition
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 700g
• ISBN-13: 9781108472555
• ISBN-10: 1108472559
• Artikelnr.: 62430957

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Eve Dunbar and Ayesha K. Hardison; Part I. Productive
Precarity and Literary Realism: 1. Black excesses and deprivations in
literature and photography of the 1930s Sharon Lynette Jones; 2. Arna
Bontemps and black literary archives Emily Lutenski; 3. Black women's 1930s
protest fiction Jennifer D. Williams; Part II. New Deal, New Methodologies:
4. Folklore, folk life and ethnography in African American Writing of the
1930s Robin Lucy; 5. New deal discourses J. J. Butts; 6. Black theatre
archives and the making of a black dramatic tradition Kate Dossett; Part
III. Cultivating (New) Black Readers: 7. Racial representation and the
performance of 1930s African American literary history John Edgar Tidwell;
8. 1930s black print cultures Shawn Anthony Christian; Part IV.
International, Black and Radical Visions: 9. Democracy unfinished: African
Americans writing 'Africa' Nicole A. Waligora-Davis; 10. Langston Hughes
and the 1930s: From Harlem to the USSR Cynthia Davis and Verner D.
Mitchell; 11. Communism and African American literature in the great
depression Nathaniel Mills.