The African American Roots of Modernism : From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance /

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In identifying the Jim Crow period with the coming of modernity, Smethurst upsets the customary assessment of the Harlem Renaissance as the first nationally significant black arts movement, showing how artists reacted to Jim Crow with migration narratives, poetry about the black experience, and more...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smethurst, James Edward
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Moderne.
Geistesleben.
Rassentrennung.
Schwarze.
Amerikanisches Englisch.
Literatur.
Schwarze
Kultur
Literatur
Moderne
Segregation in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
American literature > African American authors.
African Americans > Segregation.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Modernisme (Litterature) > États-Unis.
Noirs americains > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Vie intellectuelle > 19e siecle.
Noirs americains > Segregation.
Segregation dans la litterature.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 19th century.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
USA
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:In identifying the Jim Crow period with the coming of modernity, Smethurst upsets the customary assessment of the Harlem Renaissance as the first nationally significant black arts movement, showing how artists reacted to Jim Crow with migration narratives, poetry about the black experience, and more.
Physical Description:1 online resource (264 pages).
ISBN:9781469603100

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