Authentic Blackness - The Folk in the New Negro Renaissance

"J. Martin Favor has done the field of African American literary and cultural studies a profound service. His readings of Harlem Renaissance texts challenge our assumptions about racial identity and the ways our assumptions have shaped how we read literature by Black writers."--Herman Beavers, author of "Wrestling Angels into Song: The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson"

List of contents

Acknowledgments vii

1 Discourses of Black Identity: The Elements of Authenticity 1

2 For a Mess of Pottage: James Weldon Johnson's Ex-Colored Man as (In)authentic Man 25

3 "Colored; Cold. Wrong somewhere.": Jean Toomer's Cane 53

4 A Clash of Birthrights: Nella Larsen, the Feminine, and African American Identity 81

5 Color, Culture, and the Nature of Race: George S. Schuyler's Black No More 111

6 The Possibilities of Multiplicity: Community, Tradition, and African American Subject Positions 137

Notes 153

Bibliography 171

Index 179

About the author

J. Martin Favor

Product details

• Authors: J Martin Favor, J. Martin Favor
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.07.1999
• EAN: 9780822323112
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2311-2
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 237 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 494 g
• Series: New Americanists; New Americanists
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Amerika, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American