African American Literature In Transition 1930 1940

Author : Eve Dunbar,Ayesha K. Hardison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 1108560660

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African American Literature in Transition 1930-1940 by Eve Dunbar,Ayesha K. Hardison Pdf

"The volume's first section demonstrates the subtle influence of the Great Depression's devastation on Black literary themes and methodologies by situating more well-known figures within a wide matrix of lesser known writers, thinkers, and cultural workers. In this way, the volume's opening chapters expand our grasp of the literary tradition by foregrounding the manifestation of economic anxieties in the career trajectories of numerous Black writers as well as the subject matter and conventions employed in their various works. Sharon L. Jones proposes in her introductory chapter that we might trace writers' preoccupations with excess and deprivation as emerging as staple tropes of Depression-era writing"--

Author : Eve Dunbar,Ayesha K. Hardison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108472555

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African American Literature in Transition, 1930-1940: Volume 10 by Eve Dunbar,Ayesha K. Hardison Pdf

This book illustrates African American writers' cultural production and political engagement despite the economic precarity of the 1930s.

Author : Miriam Thaggert,Rachel Farebrother
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108834162

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African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930: Volume 9 by Miriam Thaggert,Rachel Farebrother Pdf

This book analyses historical, literary, and cultural shifts in African American literature from the 1920s-1930s.

Author : Eve Dunbar,Ayesha K. Hardison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108626248

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African American Literature in Transition, 1930–1940: Volume 10 by Eve Dunbar,Ayesha K. Hardison Pdf

The volume explores 1930s African American writing to examine Black life, culture, and politics to document the ways Black artists and everyday people managed the Great Depression's economic impact on the creative and the social. Essays engage iconic figures such as Sterling Brown, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Dorothy West, and Richard Wright as well as understudied writers such as Arna Bontemps and Marita Bonner, Henry Lee Moon, and Roi Ottley. This book demonstrates the significance of the New Deal's Works Progress Administration (WPA), the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) and Black literary circles in the absence of white patronage. By featuring novels, poetry, short fiction, and drama alongside guidebooks, photographs, and print culture, African American Literature in Transition 1930-1940 provides evidence of the literary culture created by Black writers and readers during a period of economic precarity, expanded activism for social justice, and urgent internationalism.

Author : Miriam Thaggert,Rachel Farebrother
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 1108994369

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African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930 by Miriam Thaggert,Rachel Farebrother Pdf

"African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930 presents original essays that map ideological, historical, and cultural shifts in the 1920s. Complicating the familiar reading of the 1920s as a decade that began with a spectacular boom and ended with disillusionment and bust, the collection explores the range and diversity of Black cultural production. Emphasizing a generative contrast between the ephemeral qualities of periodicals, clothes, and décor and the relative fixity of canonical texts, this volume captures in its dynamics a cultural movement that was fluid and expansive. Chapters by leading scholars are grouped into four sections: "Habitus, Sound, Fashion"; "Spaces: Chronicles of Harlem and Beyond"; "Uplift Renewed: Religion, Protest, and Education," and "Serial Reading: Magazines and Periodical Culture.""--

Author : Ichiro Takayoshi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 933 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108570572

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American Literature in Transition, 1930–1940 by Ichiro Takayoshi Pdf

American Literature in Transition, 1930–1940 gathers together in a single volume preeminent critics and historians to offer an authoritative, analytic, and theoretically advanced account of the Depression era's key literary events. Many topics of canonical importance, such as protest literature, Hollywood fiction, the culture industry, and populism, receive fresh treatment. The book also covers emerging areas of interest, such as radio drama, bestsellers, religious fiction, internationalism, and middlebrow domestic fiction. Traditionally, scholars have treated each one of these issues in isolation. This volume situates all the significant literary developments of the 1930s within a single and capacious vision that discloses their hidden structural relations - their contradictions, similarities, and reciprocities. This is an excellent resource for undergraduate, graduate students, and scholars interested in American literary culture of the 1930s.

Author : D. Quentin Miller,Rich Blint
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009188258

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African American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990: Volume 15 by D. Quentin Miller,Rich Blint Pdf

African American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990 tracks Black expressive culture in the 1980s as novelists, poets, dramatists, filmmakers, and performers grappled with the contradictory legacies of the civil rights era, and the start of culture wars and policy machinations that would come to characterize the 1990s. The volume is necessarily interdisciplinary and critically promiscuous in its methodologies and objects of study as it reconsiders conventional temporal, spatial, and moral understandings of how African American letters emerged immediately after the movement James Baldwin describes as the 'latest slave rebellion.' As such, the question of the state of America's democratic project as refracted through the literature of the shaping presence of African Americans is one of the guiding concerns of this volume preoccupied with a moment in American literary history still burdened by the legacies of the 1960s, while imagining the contours of an African Americanist future in the new millennium.

Author : Shelly Eversley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108395274

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African American Literature in Transition, 1960–1970: Volume 13 by Shelly Eversley Pdf

This volume considers innovations, transitions, and traditions in both familiar and unfamiliar texts and moments in 1960s African American literature and culture. It interrogates declarations of race, authenticity, personal and collective empowerment, political action, and aesthetics within this key decade. It is divided into three sections. The first section engages poetry and music as pivotal cultural form in 1960s literary transitions. The second section explains how literature, culture, and politics intersect to offer a blueprint for revolution within and beyond the United States. The final section addresses literary and cultural moments that are lesser-known in the canon of African American literature and culture. This book presents the 1960s as a unique commitment to art, when 'Black' became a political identity, one in which racial social justice became inseparable from aesthetic practice.

Author : Miriam Thaggert,Rachel Farebrother
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108998260

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African American Literature in Transition, 1920–1930: Volume 9 by Miriam Thaggert,Rachel Farebrother Pdf

African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930 presents original essays that map ideological, historical, and cultural shifts in the 1920s. Complicating the familiar reading of the 1920s as a decade that began with a spectacular boom and ended with disillusionment and bust, the collection explores the range and diversity of Black cultural production. Emphasizing a generative contrast between the ephemeral qualities of periodicals, clothes, and décor and the relative fixity of canonical texts, this volume captures in its dynamics a cultural movement that was fluid and expansive. Chapters by leading scholars are grouped into four sections: 'Habitus, Sound, Fashion'; 'Spaces: Chronicles of Harlem and Beyond'; 'Uplift Renewed: Religion, Protest, and Education,' and 'Serial Reading: Magazines and Periodical Culture.'

Author : Teresa C. Zackodnik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1108446221

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African American Literature in Transition, 1850-1865 by Teresa C. Zackodnik Pdf

Author : Maryemma Graham,Jerry Washington Ward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 861 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521872171

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The Cambridge History of African American Literature by Maryemma Graham,Jerry Washington Ward Pdf

A major new history of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States.

Author : Valerie Babb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107061729

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A History of the African American Novel by Valerie Babb Pdf

This History is intended for a broad audience seeking knowledge of how novels interact with and influence their cultural landscape. Its interdisciplinary approach will appeal to those interested in novels and film, graphic novels, novels and popular culture, transatlantic blackness, and the interfacing of race, class, gender, and aesthetics.

Author : Shirley Moody-Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 110843326X

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African American Literature in Transition, 1900-1910 by Shirley Moody-Turner Pdf

"African American Literature in Transition 1900- 1910 offers a wide ranging, multi-disciplinary approach to early twentieth century African American literature and culture. It showcases the literary and cultural productions that took shape in the critical years after Reconstruction, but before the Harlem Renaissance, the period known as the nadir of African American history. It undercovers the dynamic work being done by Black authors, painters, photographers, poets, editors, boxers, and entertainers to shape 'New Negro' identities and to chart a new path for a new century. The book is structured into four key areas: Black publishing and print culture; innovations in genre and form; the race, class and gender politics of literary and cultural production; and new geographies of Black literary history. These overarching themes, along with the introduction of established figures and movement, alongside lesser known texts and original research, offer a radical re-conceptualization of this critical, but understudied period in African American literary history. 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 codirector 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"--

Author : Shirley Moody-Turner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 110842208X

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African American Literature in Transition, 1900-1910: Volume 7 by Shirley Moody-Turner Pdf

African American Literature in Transition, 1900-1910 offers a wide ranging, multi-disciplinary approach to early twentieth century African American literature and culture. It showcases the literary and cultural productions that took shape in the critical years after Reconstruction, but before the Harlem Renaissance, the period known as the nadir of African American history. It undercovers the dynamic work being done by Black authors, painters, photographers, poets, editors, boxers, and entertainers to shape 'New Negro' identities and to chart a new path for a new century. The book is structured into four key areas: Black publishing and print culture; innovations in genre and form; the race, class and gender politics of literary and cultural production; and new geographies of Black literary history. These overarching themes, along with the introduction of established figures and movement, alongside lesser known texts and original research, offer a radical re-conceptualization of this critical, but understudied period in African American literary history.

Author : Jasmine Nichole Cobb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1108454429

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African American Literature in Transition, 1800-1830 by Jasmine Nichole Cobb Pdf