Post-bellum, pre-Harlem : African American literature and culture, 1877-1919
The years between the collapse of Reconstruction and the end of World War I mark a pivotal moment in African American cultural production. This work offers fresh perspectives on the literary and cultural achievements of African American men and women during this period of the nation's past.
Aufsatzsammlung
xiv, 298 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780814731673, 9780814731680, 0814731678, 0814731686
62766073
Creative collaboration: as African American as sweet potato pie / Frances Smith Foster
Commemorative ceremonies and invented traditions: history, memory, and modernity in the "new Negro" novel of the Nadir / Carla L. Peterson
Landscapes of labor: race, religion, and Rhode Island in the painting of Edward Mitchell Bannister / Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
"Manly husbands and womanly wives": the leadership of educator Lucy Craft Laney / Audrey Thomas McCluskey
Old and new issue servants: "race" men and women weigh in / Barbara Ryan
Savannah's Colored Tribune, the Reverend E.K. Love, and the sacred rebellion of uplift / Barbara McCaskill
A marginal man in Black Bohemia: James Weldon Johnson in the New York tenderloin / Robert M. Dowling
Jamming with Julius: Charles Chesnutt and the post-bellum-pre-Harlem blues / Barbara A. Baker
Rewriting Dunbar: realism, black women poets, and the genteel / Paula Bernat Bennett
Inventing a "Negro Literature": race, dialect, and gender in the early work of Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson / Caroline Gebhard
No excuses for our dirt: Booker T. Washington and a "new Negro" middle class / Philip J. Kowalski
War work, social work, community work: Alice Dunbar-Nelson, federal war work agencies, and Southern African American women / Nikki L. Brown
Antilynching plays: Angelina Weld Grimké, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and the evolution of African American drama / Koritha A. Mitchell
Henry Ossawa Tanner and W.E.B. Du Bois: African American art and "high culture" at the turn into the twentieth century / Margaret Crumpton Winter and Rhonda Reymond
The folk, the school, and the marketplace: locations of culture in The souls of black folk / Andrew J. Scheiber