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The African American roots of modernism : from Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance

Title
The African American roots of modernism : from Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance / James Smethurst.
Author
Smethurst, James Edward.
Publication
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
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Description
x, 252 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Uniform Title
John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Subject
  • American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
  • Segregation in literature
  • African Americans > Segregation
  • African Americans > Intellectual life > 19th century
  • African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century
  • Modernism (Literature) > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: new forms and captive knights in the age of Jim Crow and mechanical reproduction -- Dueling banjos: African American dualism and strategies for Black representation at the turn of the century -- Remembering "those noble sons of ham": poetry, soldiers, and citizens at the end of reconstruction -- The Black city: the early Jim Crow migration narrative and the new territory of race -- Somebody else's civilization: African American writers, bohemia, and the new poetry -- A familiar and warm relationship: race, sexual freedom, and U.S. literary modernism.
Call Number
Sc E 14-814
ISBN
  • 9780807834633 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0807834637 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780807871850 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0807871850 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2010047552
OCLC
668197738
Author
Smethurst, James Edward.
Title
The African American roots of modernism : from Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance / James Smethurst.
Imprint
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
Series
The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Research Call Number
Sc E 14-814
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