African American Literature in Transition, 19001910: Volume 7

Charts the transitions in African American literature and culture that took shape after Reconstruction, but before the Harlem Renaissance.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; List of images; Introduction Shirley Moody-Turner; Part I. Transition in African American Authorship, Publishing and the Visual Arts: 1. Black bibliographers and the category of negro authorship Laura E. Helton; 2. Transitions in African American book publishing and print culture Alisha Knight; 3. Re-evaluating African American art before the Harlem renaissance Rhonda Reymond; Part II. New Negro Aesthetic and Transitions in Genre and Form: 4. African American novels and new slavery in the new south M. Giulia Fabi; 5. Anti-lynching poetry and the poetics of protest Laura Vrana; 6. The politics of performance, character, and literary genre in transition April Logan; Part III. Modernist Masculinities and Transitions in Black Leadership: 7. Charting the tensions between optimism and despair at mid-decade Hanna Wallinger; 8. W. E. B. Du Bois and transitions in black intellectual thought Keith Byerman; 9. Celebrity and black masculinity at the turn into the twentieth century Jeffrey Leak; Part IV. Remapping the Turn of the Twentieth Century: 10. Can the subaltern speak through Alain Locke and Paul Laurence Dunbar? Jeffrey Stewart; 11. Race and manhood in African American representations of the frontier James Leiker; 12. Narratives of black and Chinese citizenship after Plessy v. Ferguson Edlie Wong; 13. Black transpacific culture and the migratory imagination Vince Schleitwiler.

About the author

Shirley Moody-Turner is the author of Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation (2013) and Contemporary African American Literature: The Living Canon (2103). She is an award-winning teacher in the departments of English and African American Studies at Penn State University and co-director of the Center for Black Digital Research. She is a former fellow of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, Massachusetts.

Summary

This book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to African American literary history, showcasing the transitions in literary and cultural productions that took shape at the turn into the twentieth century. Its range and scope make it a key resource for scholars, students, and researchers.

Product details

• Authors: Shirley (Pennsylvania State Universi Moody-Turner
• Assisted by: Shirley Moody-Turner (Editor), Shirley (Pennsylvania State University) Moody-Turner (Editor), Moody-Turner Shirley (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781108422086
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42208-6
• No. of pages: 378
• Series: African American Literature in Transition; African American Literature in
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gender studies, gender groups, Social classes, Literary reference works, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Black & Asian Studies, Relating to African American / Black American people