African American literature in transition, 1930-1940 /

African American literature in transition, 1930-1940 /

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Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022. ©2022
Description:	xv, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	African American literature in transition ; [volume 10] African American literature in transition ; v.10.
Subject:	American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism. American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. African Americans in literature. African Americans in literature. African Americans -- Intellectual life. American literature -- African American authors. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism. Literary criticism.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12746472

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Other authors / contributors:	Dunbar, Eve, 1976- editor. Hardison, Ayesha K., editor.
ISBN:	9781108472555 1108472559 9781108560665
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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"--
Other form:	Online version: African American literature in transition 1930-1940 Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021 9781108560665

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