The Cambridge History of African American Literature

The Cambridge History of African American Literature
Author: Maryemma Graham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 861
Release: 2011-02-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521872170

A major new history of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States.

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

African American Literature in Transition, 1900–1910: Volume 7
Author: Shirley Moody-Turner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 653
Release: 2021-05-13
Genre: 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.

The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance

The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance
Author: George Hutchinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2007-06-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521673686

This 2007 Companion is a comprehensive guide to the key authors and works of the African American literary movement.

American Literature in Transition, 1930–1940

American Literature in Transition, 1930–1940
Author: Ichiro Takayoshi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 933
Release: 2018-11-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108570577

American Literature in Transition, 1930–1940 gathers together in a single volume preeminent critics and historians to offer an authoritative, analytic, and theoretically advanced account of the Depression era's key literary events. Many topics of canonical importance, such as protest literature, Hollywood fiction, the culture industry, and populism, receive fresh treatment. The book also covers emerging areas of interest, such as radio drama, bestsellers, religious fiction, internationalism, and middlebrow domestic fiction. Traditionally, scholars have treated each one of these issues in isolation. This volume situates all the significant literary developments of the 1930s within a single and capacious vision that discloses their hidden structural relations - their contradictions, similarities, and reciprocities. This is an excellent resource for undergraduate, graduate students, and scholars interested in American literary culture of the 1930s.

African American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990: Volume 15

African American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990: Volume 15
Author: D. Quentin Miller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2023-01-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1009188259

African American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990 tracks Black expressive culture in the 1980s as novelists, poets, dramatists, filmmakers, and performers grappled with the contradictory legacies of the civil rights era, and the start of culture wars and policy machinations that would come to characterize the 1990s. The volume is necessarily interdisciplinary and critically promiscuous in its methodologies and objects of study as it reconsiders conventional temporal, spatial, and moral understandings of how African American letters emerged immediately after the movement James Baldwin describes as the 'latest slave rebellion.' As such, the question of the state of America's democratic project as refracted through the literature of the shaping presence of African Americans is one of the guiding concerns of this volume preoccupied with a moment in American literary history still burdened by the legacies of the 1960s, while imagining the contours of an African Americanist future in the new millennium.

African American Literature in Transition, 1960–1970: Volume 13

African American Literature in Transition, 1960–1970: Volume 13
Author: Shelly Eversley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 479
Release: 2022-11-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108395279

This volume considers innovations, transitions, and traditions in both familiar and unfamiliar texts and moments in 1960s African American literature and culture. It interrogates declarations of race, authenticity, personal and collective empowerment, political action, and aesthetics within this key decade. It is divided into three sections. The first section engages poetry and music as pivotal cultural form in 1960s literary transitions. The second section explains how literature, culture, and politics intersect to offer a blueprint for revolution within and beyond the United States. The final section addresses literary and cultural moments that are lesser-known in the canon of African American literature and culture. This book presents the 1960s as a unique commitment to art, when 'Black' became a political identity, one in which racial social justice became inseparable from aesthetic practice.

Afrotopia

Afrotopia
Author: Wilson Jeremiah Moses
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1998-09-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521479417

A study of Afrocentrism since the eighteenth-century, with particular attention to popular mythologies.