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Author : Eve Dunbar
Publisher :
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 36,49 MB
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108472559
This book illustrates African American writers' cultural production and political engagement despite the economic precarity of the 1930s.
Author : Eve Dunbar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 27,46 MB
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108626246
The volume explores 1930s African American writing to examine Black life, culture, and politics to document the ways Black artists and everyday people managed the Great Depression's economic impact on the creative and the social. Essays engage iconic figures such as Sterling Brown, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Dorothy West, and Richard Wright as well as understudied writers such as Arna Bontemps and Marita Bonner, Henry Lee Moon, and Roi Ottley. This book demonstrates the significance of the New Deal's Works Progress Administration (WPA), the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) and Black literary circles in the absence of white patronage. By featuring novels, poetry, short fiction, and drama alongside guidebooks, photographs, and print culture, African American Literature in Transition 1930-1940 provides evidence of the literary culture created by Black writers and readers during a period of economic precarity, expanded activism for social justice, and urgent internationalism.
Author : Maryemma Graham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 861 pages
File Size : 17,28 MB
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521872170
A major new history of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States.
Author : Shirley Moody-Turner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 16,57 MB
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108386571
African American Literature in Transition, 1900–1910 offers a wide ranging, multi-disciplinary approach to early twentieth century African American literature and culture. It showcases the literary and cultural productions that took shape in the critical years after Reconstruction, but before the Harlem Renaissance, the period known as the nadir of African American history. It undercovers the dynamic work being done by Black authors, painters, photographers, poets, editors, boxers, and entertainers to shape 'New Negro' identities and to chart a new path for a new century. The book is structured into four key areas: Black publishing and print culture; innovations in genre and form; the race, class and gender politics of literary and cultural production; and new geographies of Black literary history. These overarching themes, along with the introduction of established figures and movement, alongside lesser known texts and original research, offer a radical re-conceptualization of this critical, but understudied period in African American literary history.
Author : George Hutchinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 21,68 MB
Release : 2007-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521673686
This 2007 Companion is a comprehensive guide to the key authors and works of the African American literary movement.
Author : Shamoon Zamir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 2008-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139828134
W. E. B. Du Bois was the pre-eminent African American intellectual of the twentieth century. As a pioneering historian, sociologist and civil rights activist, and as a novelist and autobiographer, he made the problem of race central to an understanding of the United States within both national and transnational contexts; his masterwork The Souls of Black Folk (1903) is today among the most widely read and most often quoted works of American literature. This Companion presents ten specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars which explore key aspects of Du Bois's work. The book offers students a critical introduction to Du Bois, as well as opening new pathways into the further study of his remarkable career. It will be of interest to all those working in African American studies, American literature, and American studies generally.
Author : Valerie Babb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 34,12 MB
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1107061725
This History is intended for a broad audience seeking knowledge of how novels interact with and influence their cultural landscape. Its interdisciplinary approach will appeal to those interested in novels and film, graphic novels, novels and popular culture, transatlantic blackness, and the interfacing of race, class, gender, and aesthetics.
Author : Justine Tally
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 35,46 MB
Release : 2007-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139827855
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is one of the most widely studied of contemporary American authors. Her novels, particularly Beloved, have had a dramatic impact on the American canon and attracted considerable critical commentary. This 2007 Companion introduces and examines her oeuvre as a whole, the first evaluation to include not only her famous novels, but also her other literary works (short story, drama, musical, and opera), her social and literary criticism, and her career as an editor and teacher. Innovative contributions from internationally recognized critics and academics discuss Morrison's themes, narrative techniques, language and political philosophy, and explain the importance of her work to American studies and world literature. This comprehensive and accessible approach, together with a chronology and guide to further reading, makes this an essential book for students and scholars of African American literature.
Author : Alex Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 23,55 MB
Release : 2007-07-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139827642
This Companion offers the most comprehensive overview available of modernist poetry, its forms, its major authors and its contexts. The first part explores the historical and cultural contexts and sexual politics of literary modernism and the avant garde. The chapters in the second part concentrate on individual authors and movements, while the concluding part offers a comprehensive overview of the early reception and subsequent canonisation of modernist poetry. As well as insightful readings of canonical poets, the Companion features extended discussions of poets whose importance is now being increasingly recognised, such as Mina Loy, poets of the Harlem Renaissance, and postcolonial poets in the Caribbean, Africa and India. While modernist poets are often thought of as difficult, these essays will help students to understand and enjoy their experimental, playful and fascinating responses to contemporary social and cultural change and their dialogue with the arts and with each other.
Author : Charles Ferrall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 12,96 MB
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108751415
Literature from the 'political' 1930s has often been read in contrast to the 'aesthetic' 1920s. This collection suggests a different approach. Drawing on recent work expanding our sense of the political and aesthetic energies of interwar modernisms, these chapters track transitions in British literature. The strains of national break-up, class dissension and political instability provoked a new literary order, and reading across the two decades between the wars exposes the continuing pressure of these transitions. Instead of following familiar markers - 1922, the Crash, the Spanish Civil War - or isolating particular themes from literary study, this collection takes key problems and dilemmas from literature 'in transition' and reads them across familiar and unfamiliar cultural works and productions, in their rich and contradictory context of publication. Themes such as gender, sexuality, nation and class are thus present throughout these essays. Major writers such as Woolf are read alongside forgotten and marginalised voices.