The Muse in Bronzeville : African American Creative Expression in Chicago, 1932-1950.

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The Muse in Bronzeville, a dynamic reappraisal of a neglected period in African American cultural history, is the first comprehensive critical study of the creative awakening that occurred on Chicago's South Side from the early 1930s to the cold war. Coming of age during the hard Depression yea...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bone, Robert, 1924-2007
Other Authors: Courage, Richard A., Singh, Amritjit
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2011.
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
1900-1999
American literature > Illinois > Chicago > History and criticism.
African Americans > Illinois > Chicago > History > 20th century.
Noirs américains > Illinois > Chicago > Histoire > 20e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
African Americans.
American literature.
Intellectual life.
Chicago (Ill.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Illinois > Chicago.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. One Account of Origins
  • 1. Tuskegee Connection
  • 2. Charles S. Johnson and the Parkian Tradition
  • 3. New Negro in Chicago
  • pt. Two Bronzeville's Social Muse
  • 4. Year of Transition
  • 5. Birthing the Blues and Other Black Musical Forms
  • 6. Bronzeville and the Documentary Spirit
  • 7. Documentary Eye
  • 8. Bronzeville's "Writing Clan"
  • 9. Bronzeville and the Novel
  • 10. Bronzeville and the Poets
  • 11. Wheel Turns.

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