African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930: Volume 9

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African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930 presents original essays that map ideological, historical, and cultural shifts in the 1920s. Complicating the familiar reading of the 1920s as a decade that began with a spectacular boom and ended with disillusionment and bust, the collection explores the range and diversity of Black cultural production. Emphasizing a generative contrast between the ephemeral qualities of periodicals, clothes, and decor and the relative fixity of canonical texts, this volume captures in its dynamics a cultural movement that was fluid and expansive. Chapters by leading scholars are grouped into four sections: 'Habitus, Sound, Fashion'; 'Spaces: Chronicles of Harlem and Beyond'; 'Uplift Renewed: Religion, Protest, and Education,' and 'Serial Reading: Magazines and Periodical Culture.'

Miriam Thaggert is the author of Images of Black Modernism: Verbal and Visual Strategies of the Harlem Renaissance (2010). Her essays have appeared in African American Review, American Literary History, American Quarterly, Feminist Modernist Studies, and Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism. With Rachel Farebrother, she co-edited The History of the Harlem Renaissance (2021). Rachel Farebrother is the author of The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance (2009). Her essays have appeared in Journal of American Studies, MELUS, Modernism/modernity, and various edited collections. With Miriam Thaggert, she co-edited The History of the Harlem Renaissance (2021).