Author: Shelly EversleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781108386043
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
Languages : en
Pages :
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African American Literature in Transition, 1960-1970
Author: Shelly EversleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781108386043
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
African American Literature in Transition, 1960–1970: Volume 13
Author: Shelly EversleyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108395279
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
This volume considers innovations, transitions, and traditions in both familiar and unfamiliar texts and moments in 1960s African American literature and culture. It interrogates declarations of race, authenticity, personal and collective empowerment, political action, and aesthetics within this key decade. It is divided into three sections. The first section engages poetry and music as pivotal cultural form in 1960s literary transitions. The second section explains how literature, culture, and politics intersect to offer a blueprint for revolution within and beyond the United States. The final section addresses literary and cultural moments that are lesser-known in the canon of African American literature and culture. This book presents the 1960s as a unique commitment to art, when 'Black' became a political identity, one in which racial social justice became inseparable from aesthetic practice.
African American Literature in Transition 1930-1940
Author: Eve DunbarPublisher:
ISBN: 9781108560665
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
Languages : en
Pages :
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"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"--
American Literature in Transition, 1960–1970
Author: David WyattPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316732843
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
The decade of the 1960s has come to occupy a uniquely seductive place in both the popular and the historical imagination. While few might disagree that it was a transformative period, the United States remains divided on the question of whether the changes that occurred were for the better or for the worse. Some see it as a decade when people became more free; others as a time when people became more lost. American Literature in Transition, 1960–1970 provides the latest scholarship on this time of fateful turning as seen through the eyes of writers as various as Toni Morrison, Gary Snyder, Michael Herr, Amiri Baraka, Joan Didion, Louis Chu, John Rechy, and Gwendolyn Brooks. This collection of essays by twenty-five scholars offers analysis and explication of the culture wars surrounding the period, and explores the enduring testimonies left behind by its literature.
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.
African American Literature in Transition, 1980-1990: Volume 15
Author: D. Quentin MillerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781009179348
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
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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, 1920–1930: Volume 9
Author: Miriam ThaggertPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108998267
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930 presents original essays that map ideological, historical, and cultural shifts in the 1920s. Complicating the familiar reading of the 1920s as a decade that began with a spectacular boom and ended with disillusionment and bust, the collection explores the range and diversity of Black cultural production. Emphasizing a generative contrast between the ephemeral qualities of periodicals, clothes, and décor and the relative fixity of canonical texts, this volume captures in its dynamics a cultural movement that was fluid and expansive. Chapters by leading scholars are grouped into four sections: 'Habitus, Sound, Fashion'; 'Spaces: Chronicles of Harlem and Beyond'; 'Uplift Renewed: Religion, Protest, and Education,' and 'Serial Reading: Magazines and Periodical Culture.'
African American Literature in Transition, 1850-1865
Author: Teresa C. ZackodnikPublisher:
ISBN: 9781108446228
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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African American Literature in Transition, 1900-1910
Author: Shirley Moody-TurnerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781108433266
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
Languages : en
Pages : 363
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. Shirley Moody-Turner is the author of Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation (2013) and Contemporary African American Literature: The Living Canon (2103). She is an award-winning teacher in the departments of English and African American Studies at Penn State University and codirector of the Center for Black Digital Research. She is a former fellow of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University"--