American Literature In Transition 1930 1940

Author : Eve Dunbar,Ayesha K. Hardison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : Ichiro Takayoshi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 933 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Chris Vials
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : American literature
ISBN : 131650770X

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American Literature in Transition, 1940-1950 by Chris Vials Pdf

Author : Eve Dunbar,Ayesha K. Hardison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : 54,7 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 : Amanda Holmes,Par Kumaraswami
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009188791

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Latin American Literature in Transition 1930–1980: Volume 4 by Amanda Holmes,Par Kumaraswami Pdf

Latin American Literature in Transition 1930-1980 explores the literary landscape of the mid-twentieth-century and the texts that were produced during that period. It takes four core areas of thematic and conceptual focus – solidarity, aesthetics and innovation, war, revolution and dictatorship, metropolis and ruins – and employs them to explore the complexity, heterogeneity and hybridity of form, genre, subject matter and discipline that characterised literature from the period. In doing so, it uncovers the points of transition, connection, contradiction, and tension that shaped the work of many canonical and non-canonical authors. It illuminates the conversations between genres, literary movements, disciplines and modes of representation that underpin writing form this period. Lastly, by focusing on canon and beyond, the volume visibilizes the aesthetics, poetics, politics, and social projects of writing, incorporating established writers, but also writers whose work is yet to be examined in all its complexity.

Author : D. Quentin Miller,Rich Blint
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : 52,9 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 : Eve Dunbar,Ayesha K. Hardison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Ichiro Takayoshi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108304801

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American Literature in Transition, 1920–1930 by Ichiro Takayoshi Pdf

American Literature in Transition, 1920–1930 examines the dynamic interactions between social and literary fields during the so-called Jazz Age. It situates the era's place in the incremental evolution of American literature throughout the twentieth century. Essays from preeminent critics and historians analyze many overlapping aspects of American letters in the 1920s and re-evaluate an astonishingly diverse group of authors. Expansive in scope and daring in its mixture of eclectic methods, this book extends the most exciting advances made in the last several decades in the fields of modernist studies, ethnic literatures, African-American literature, gender studies, transnational studies, and the history of the book. It examines how the world of literature intersected with other arts, such as cinema, jazz, and theater, and explores the print culture in transition, with a focus on new publishing houses, trends in advertising, readership, and obscenity laws.

Author : Christopher Vials
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108547505

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American Literature in Transition, 1940–1950 by Christopher Vials Pdf

In the aftermath of World War II, the United States emerged as the dominant imperial power, and in US popular memory, the Second World War is remembered more vividly than the American Revolution. American Literature in Transition, 1940–1950 provides crucial contexts for interpreting the literature of this period. Essays from scholars in literature, history, art history, ethnic studies, and American studies show how writers intervened in the global struggles of the decade: the Second World War, the Cold War, and emerging movements over racial justice, gender and sexuality, labor, and de-colonization. One recurrent motif is the centrality of the political impulse in art and culture. Artists and writers participated widely in left and liberal social movements that fundamentally transformed the terms of social life in the twentieth century, not by advocating specific legislation, but by changing underlying cultural values. This book addresses all the political impulses fueling art and literature at the time, as well as the development of new forms and media, from modernism and noir to radio and the paperback.

Author : Ichiro Takayoshi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 110841821X

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American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930 by Ichiro Takayoshi Pdf

American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930 examines the dynamic interactions between social and literary fields during the so-called Jazz Age. It situates the era's place in the incremental evolution of American literature throughout the twentieth century. Essays from preeminent critics and historians analyze many overlapping aspects of American letters in the 1920s and re-evaluate an astonishingly diverse group of authors. Expansive in scope and daring in its mixture of eclectic methods, this book extends the most exciting advances made in the last several decades in the fields of modernist studies, ethnic literatures, African-American literature, gender studies, transnational studies, and the history of the book. It examines how the world of literature intersected with other arts, such as cinema, jazz, and theater, and explores the print culture in transition, with a focus on new publishing houses, trends in advertising, readership, and obscenity laws.

Author : Miriam Thaggert,Rachel Farebrother
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Mark Whalan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 948 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108808026

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The Cambridge History of American Modernism by Mark Whalan Pdf

The Cambridge History of American Modernism examines one of the most innovative periods of American literary history. It offers a comprehensive account of the forms, genres, and media that characterized US modernism: coverage ranges from the traditional, such as short stories, novels, and poetry, to the new media that shaped the period's literary culture, such as jazz, cinema, the skyscraper, and radio. This volume charts how recent methodologies such as ecocriticism, geomodernism, and print culture studies have refashioned understandings of the field, and attends to the contestations and inequities of race, sovereignty, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity that shaped the period and its cultural production. It also explores the geographies and communities wherein US modernism flourished-from its distinctive regions to its metropolitan cities, from its hemispheric connections to the salons and political groupings that hosted new cultural collaborations.

Author : Victor Bascara,Josephine Nock-Hee Park
Publisher : Asian American Literature in T
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108835602

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Asian American Literature in Transition, 1930-1965: Volume 2 by Victor Bascara,Josephine Nock-Hee Park Pdf

Leading scholars provide illuminating and engaging perspectives on a long neglected, yet incredibly eventful, period (1930-1965) of Asian American literature.