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The African American roots of modernism : from Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance / James Smethurst.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culturePublisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : University of North Carolina Press, [2011]Description: 1 online resource (x, 252 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780807878088
  • 0807878081
  • 9781469603100
  • 1469603101
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: African American roots of modernism.DDC classification:
  • 810.9/896073 23/eng/20240109
LOC classification:
  • PS153.N5 S555 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : new forms and captive knights in the age of Jim Crow and mechanical reproduction -- Dueling banjos : African American dualism and strategies for black representation at the turn of the century -- Remembering "those noble sons of Ham" : poetry, soldiers, and citizens at the end of reconstruction -- The black city : the early Jim Crow migration narrative and the new territory of race -- Somebody else's civilization : African American writers, Bohemia, and the new poetry -- A familiar and warm relationship : race, sexual freedom, and U.S. literary modernism.
Summary: In identifying the Jim Crow period with the coming of modernity, Smethurst upsets the customary assessment of the Harlem Renaissance as the first nationally significant black arts movement, showing how artists reacted to Jim Crow with migration narratives, poetry about the black experience, and more.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-245) and index.

Introduction : new forms and captive knights in the age of Jim Crow and mechanical reproduction -- Dueling banjos : African American dualism and strategies for black representation at the turn of the century -- Remembering "those noble sons of Ham" : poetry, soldiers, and citizens at the end of reconstruction -- The black city : the early Jim Crow migration narrative and the new territory of race -- Somebody else's civilization : African American writers, Bohemia, and the new poetry -- A familiar and warm relationship : race, sexual freedom, and U.S. literary modernism.

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In identifying the Jim Crow period with the coming of modernity, Smethurst upsets the customary assessment of the Harlem Renaissance as the first nationally significant black arts movement, showing how artists reacted to Jim Crow with migration narratives, poetry about the black experience, and more.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 082

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