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:	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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Summary:	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.
Item Description:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Physical Description:	xv, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN:	9781108472555 1108472559 9781108560665