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African American Literature in Transition, 1900-1910: Volume 7

Hardback

Main Details

Title African American Literature in Transition, 1900-1910: Volume 7
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Shirley Moody-Turner
SeriesAfrican American Literature in Transition
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:378
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 158
Category/GenreLiterary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
Literary reference works
ISBN/Barcode 9781108422086
ClassificationsDewey:810.989607309041
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 13 May 2021
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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 Biography

Shirley Moody-Turner is the author of Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation (2013) and Contemporary African American Literature: The Living Canon (2103). She is an award-winning teacher in the departments of English and African American Studies at Penn State University and co-director of the Center for Black Digital Research. She is a former fellow of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, Massachusetts.