The Indignant Generation : A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960 /

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This the first narrative history of the neglected but essential period of African American literature between the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights era. The years between these two indispensable epochs saw the communal rise of Richard Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ralph Ellison, Lorraine Hansberry...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Jackson, Lawrence Patrick
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Intellektuelle > Schwarze > USA.
African American arts > 20th century.
African Americans > Race identity.
African American critics.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Literatur > USA > Afroamerikanische Autoren > Geschichte 20. Jh.
Schriftsteller
Literaturkritiker
Schwarze
American literature > African American authors.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
African American arts.
Literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
Noirs americains > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siecle.
Critiques noirs americains.
Noirs americains > Identite ethnique.
Arts noirs americains > 20e siecle.
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This the first narrative history of the neglected but essential period of African American literature between the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights era. The years between these two indispensable epochs saw the communal rise of Richard Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ralph Ellison, Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin, and many other influential black writers. While these individuals have been duly celebrated, little attention has been paid to the political and artistic milieu in which they produced their greatest works. With this study, the author recalls the lost history of a crucial era. Looking at the tumultuous decades surrounding World War II, Jackson restores the "indignant" quality to a generation of African American writers shaped by Jim Crow segregation, the Great Depression, the growth of American communism, and an international wave of decolonization. He also reveals how artistic collectives in New York, Chicago, and Washington fostered a sense of destiny and belonging among diverse and disenchanted peoples. As he shows, through contemporary documents, the years that brought us Their Eyes Were Watching God, Native Son, and Invisible Man also saw the rise of African American literary criticism by both black and white critics. Fully exploring the cadre of key African American writers who triumphed in spite of segregation, this work paints a portrait of American intellectual and artistic life in the mid-twentieth century
Descripción Física:1 online resource: illustrations
Premios:ALA Black Caucus Award, 2012 (Nonfiction)
ISBN:9781400836239

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