Author: Miriam ThaggertPublisher:
ISBN: 1108834167
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
This book analyses historical, literary, and cultural shifts in African American literature from the 1920s-1930s.
African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930: Volume 9
Author: Miriam ThaggertPublisher:
ISBN: 1108834167
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
This book analyses historical, literary, and cultural shifts in African American literature from the 1920s-1930s.
African American Literature in Transition, 1930-1940: Volume 10
Author: Eve DunbarPublisher:
ISBN: 1108472559
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This book illustrates African American writers' cultural production and political engagement despite the economic precarity of the 1930s.
American Literature in Transition, 1920–1930
Author: Ichiro TakayoshiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108307809
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
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.
American Literature in Transition, 1910–1920
Author: Mark W. Van WienenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108548598
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
American Literature in Transition, 1910–1920 offers provocative new readings of authors whose innovations are recognized as inaugurating Modernism in US letters, including Robert Frost, Willa Cather, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, H. D., and Marianne Moore. Gathering the voices of both new and established scholars, the volume also reflects the diversity and contradictions of US literature of the 1910s. 'Literature' itself is construed variously, leading to explorations of jazz, the movies, and political writing as well as little magazines, lantern slides, and sports reportage. One section of thematic essays cuts across genre boundaries. Another section oriented to formats drills deeply into the workings of specific media, genres, or forms. Essays on institutions conclude the collection, although a critical mass of contributors throughout explore long-term literary and cultural trends - where political repression, race prejudice, war, and counterrevolution are no less prominent than experimentation, progress, and egalitarianism.
Asian American Literature in Transition, 1930–1965: Volume 2
Author: Victor BascaraPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108875750
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
This volume is devoted to Asian American Literature between 1930 to 1965, a period of immense social, historical, and cultural transformations that continue to shape the conditions of our world. From the Great Depression to the Second World War to the Civil Rights Movement to landmark immigrations reforms, Asian American literature provides unique and insightful perspectives on these historical developments, all while creatively engaging with globally-dispersed decolonization movements. Each chapter, written a by leading figures in their fields, demonstrates how Asian American writing affectingly reveals our complex world and its contested pasts. Case studies of major authors of this era show this as a time when the figure of the Asian American author became newly significant. This volume provides historical grounding, theoretical interventions, and nuanced textual analysis of Asian American literature in this period.
Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800-1920: Volume 1
Author: Evelyn O'CallaghanPublisher: Caribbean Literature in Transi
ISBN: 1108475884
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
This volume explores Caribbean literature from 1800-1920 across genres and in the multiple languages of the Caribbean.
African American Literature in Transition, 1900–1910: Volume 7
Author: Shirley Moody-TurnerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108386571
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 653
Book Description
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.
A History of the Harlem Renaissance
Author: Rachel FarebrotherPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108640508
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
The Harlem Renaissance was the most influential single movement in African American literary history. The movement laid the groundwork for subsequent African American literature, and had an enormous impact on later black literature world-wide. In its attention to a wide range of genres and forms – from the roman à clef and the bildungsroman, to dance and book illustrations – this book seeks to encapsulate and analyze the eclecticism of Harlem Renaissance cultural expression. It aims to re-frame conventional ideas of the New Negro movement by presenting new readings of well-studied authors, such as Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, alongside analysis of topics, authors, and artists that deserve fuller treatment. An authoritative collection on the major writers and issues of the period, A History of the Harlem Renaissance takes stock of nearly a hundred years of scholarship and considers what the future augurs for the study of 'the New Negro'.
A History of the African American Novel
Author: Valerie BabbPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107061725
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
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.
Making Whiteness
Author: Grace Elizabeth HalePublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307487938
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Making Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such a crucial, embattled--and distorting--component of twentieth-century American identity. In intricately textured detail and with passionately mastered analysis, Grace Elizabeth Hale shows how, when faced with the active citizenship of their ex-slaves after the Civil War, white southerners re-established their dominance through a cultural system based on violence and physical separation. And in a bold and transformative analysis of the meaning of segregation for the nation as a whole, she explains how white southerners' creation of modern "whiteness" was, beginning in the 1920s, taken up by the rest of the nation as a way of enforcing a new social hierarchy while at the same time creating the illusion of a national, egalitarian, consumerist democracy. By showing the very recent historical "making" of contemporary American whiteness and by examining how the culture of segregation, in all its murderous contradictions, was lived, Hale makes it possible to imagine a future outside it. Her vision holds out the difficult promise of a truly democratic American identity whose possibilities are no longer limited and disfigured by race.