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

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Part I. Productive precarity and literary realism; Black excesses and deprivations in literature and photography of the 1930s ; Arna Bontemps and Black Literary Archives ; Black women's 1930s protest fiction
Part II. New Deal, new methodologies. Folklore, folk life, and ethnography in African American writing of the 1930s ; New Deal discourses ; Black theatre archives and the making of a Black dramatic tradition
Part III. Cultivating (new) Black readers. Racial representation and the performance of 1930s African American literary history ; Black print culture of the 1930s
Part IV. International, Black, and radical visions. Democracy unfinished: African Americans writing "Africa" ; Langston Hughes and the 1930s: From Harlem to the USSR ; Black cultural (Inter)nationalism: Communism and African American writing in the Great Depression.

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