Title Conjuring the folk : forms of modernity in African America / David G. Nicholls.

Publication Info.	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2000]
	©2000

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PS153.B53 N53 2000	Available	---

Description	xi, 180 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-169) and index.
Contents	Conjuring the folk -- Modernism and the spectral folk: Jean Toomer's Cane -- Folklore and migrant labor: Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and men -- The folk as alternative modernity: Claude McKay's Banana bottom -- Rural modernity, migration, and the gender of autonomy: the novels of George Wylie Henderson -- The folk, the race, and class consciousness: Richard Wright's 12 million Black voices -- Conclusion: local histories and world historical narrative.
Subject	American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
	American literature -- African American authors.
	Literature and folklore -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Literature and folklore.
	United States.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	American literature.
	Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
	Modernism (Literature)
	African Americans in literature.
	African Americans in literature.
	African Americans -- Folklore.
	African Americans -- Folklore.
	Folklore in literature.
	Folklore in literature.
ISBN	0472110349 acid-free paper