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1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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W.E.B. Du Bois Institute
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W.E.B. Du Bois Institute (Series)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-239) and index. |
Contents |
Modernity, Modernism, and the American ethnic minority artist / Josef Jařab -- T.S. Eliot, B.A. Botkin, and the politics of cultural representation: folklore, modernity, and pluralism / Jerrold Hirsch -- Four types of writing under modern conditions; or, black writers and "populist modernism" / Werner Sollors -- Exploring "something new": The "modernism" of Claude McKay's Harlem shadows / heather Hathaway -- The strong men gittin' stronger: Sterling Brown's Southern road and the representation and re-creation of the southern folk voice / James E. Smethurst -- Waldo Frank, Jean Toomer, and the critique of racial voyeurism / Daniel Terris -- "Among negroes": Gertrude Stein and African America / M. Lynn Weiss -- A black man in Jewface / Jeffrey Melnick -- Incognito ergo sum: "Ex" marks the spot in Cahan, Johnson, Larsen, and Yezierska / Adam Zachary Newton -- A Jewish new world in Jacob Glatshteyn's "Sheeny Mike" -- Beware of signs; or, how to tell the living from the dead: orality and writing in the work of Pedro Pietri / Alessandro Portelli -- Centralizing the marginal: prolegomena to a study of boundaries in contemporary African American fiction / Fritz Gysin -- When all met together in one room: Josef Jařab interviews Allen Ginsberg / Josef Jařab. |
Summary |
Definitions of modernism have been debated throughout the twentieth century. But both during the height of the modernist era and since, little to no consideration has been given to the work of minority writers as part of this movement. Considering works by writers ranging from B.A. Botkin, T.S. Eliot, Waldo Frank, and Jean Toomer to Pedro Pietri and Allen Ginsberg, these essays examine the disputed relationship between modernity, modernism, and American cultural diversity. In so doing, the collection as a whole adds an important new dimension to our understanding of twentieth-century literature. |
Local Note |
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Subject |
Race relations in literature.
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Race relations in literature. |
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American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- African American authors. |
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African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life. |
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20th century |
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Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
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Modernism (Literature) |
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United States. |
Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Added Author |
Hathaway, Heather.
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Jařab, Josef.
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Melnick, Jeffrey Paul.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Race and the modern artist. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003 0195123239 0195123247 (DLC) 2002002385 (OCoLC)49225222 |
ISBN |
9780195352627 (electronic book) |
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0195352629 (electronic book) |
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9780195123234 (acid-free paper) |
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0195123239 (acid-free paper) |
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9780195123241 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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0195123247 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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1280471433 |
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9781280471438 |
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