The African American roots of modernism : from Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance

Publication Data

• Title The African American roots of modernism : from Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance
• Author James Edward Smethurst
• Publisher University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date 2011
• Publication location Chapel Hill, N.C.
• Language English

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.

Topics

• American literature :: African American authors :: History and criticism
• Segregation in literature
• African Americans :: Segregation
• African Americans :: Intellectual life :: 19th century
• African Americans :: Intellectual life :: 20th century
• Modernism (Literature) :: United States

The African American roots of modernism : from Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance by James Edward Smethurst. ISBN 9780807871850. Published by University of North Carolina Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.