Skip to:Content
|
Bottom
Cover image for The African American roots of modernism : from Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance
Title:
The African American roots of modernism : from Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance
Author:
Smethurst, James Edward.
ISBN:
9780807878088

9781469603100
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 252 pages).
Series:
The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Abstract:
In identifying the Jim Crow period with the coming of modernity, Smethurst upsets the customary assessment of the Harlem Renaissance as the first nationally significant black arts movement, showing how artists reacted to Jim Crow with migration narratives, poetry about the black experience, and more.
Subject Term:
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.

Segregation in literature.

African Americans -- Segregation.

African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.

African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.

Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
Electronic Access:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807878088_smethurst
Holds:
Copies:

Available:*

Library
Material Type
Item Barcode
Shelf Number
Status
Item Holds
Searching...
 E-Book 375479-1001 ONLINE
Searching...

On Order

Go to:Top of Page