Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem : : African American Literature and Culture, 1877-1919 /

Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem : : African American Literature and Culture, 1877-1919 / / ed. by Barbara McCaskill, Caroline Gebhard.

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The years between the collapse of Reconstruction and the end of World War I mark a pivotal moment in African American cultural production. Christened the “Post-Bellum-Pre-Harlem” era by the novelist Charles Chesnutt, these years look back to the antislavery movement and forward to the artistic flowe...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Baker, Barbara A.,
Bennett, Paula Bernat,
Brown, Nikki L.,
Dowling, Robert M.,
Foster, Frances Smith,
Gebhard, Caroline,
Kowalski, Philip J.,
McCaskill, Barbara,
McCluskey, Audrey Thomas,
Mitchell, Koritha A.,
Peterson, Carla L.,
Reymond, Rhonda,
Ryan, Barbara,
Scheiber, Andrew J.,
Shaw, Gwendolyn DuBois,
Winter, Margaret Crumpton,
HerausgeberIn:
Gebhard, Caroline,
McCaskill, Barbara,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I Reimagining the Past
  • Chapter 1 Creative Collaboration: As African American as Sweet Potato Pie
  • Chapter 2 Commemorative Ceremonies and Invented Traditions: History, Memory, and Modernity in the “New Negro” Novel of the Nadir
  • Part II Meeting Freedom: Self-Invention, Artistic Innovation, and Race Progress (1870s–1880s)
  • Chapter 3 Landscapes of Labor Race, Religion, and Rhode Island in the Painting of Edward Mitchell Bannister
  • Chapter 4 “Manly Husbands and Womanly Wives” The Leadership of Educator Lucy Craft Laney
  • Chapter 5 Old and New Issue Servants “Race” Men and Women Weigh In
  • Chapter 6 Savannah’s Colored Tribune, the Reverend E. K. Love, and the Sacred Rebellion of Uplift
  • Part III Encountering Jim Crow African American Literature and the Mainstream (1890s)
  • Chapter 7 A Marginal Man in Black Bohemia: James Weldon Johnson in the New York Tenderloin
  • Chapter 8 Jamming with Julius: Charles Chesnutt and the Post-Bellum–Pre-Harlem Blues
  • Chapter 9 Rewriting Dunbar: Realism, Black Women Poets, and the Genteel
  • Chapter 10 Inventing a “Negro Literature” Race, Dialect, and Gender in the Early Work of Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson
  • Part IV Turning the Century New Political, Cultural, and Personal Aesthetics (1900–1917)
  • Chapter 11 No Excuses for Our Dirt: Booker T.Washington and a “New Negro” Middle Class
  • Chapter 12 War Work, Social Work, Community Work: Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Federal War Work Agencies, and Southern African American Women
  • Chapter 13 Antilynching Plays: Angelina Weld Grimké, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and the Evolution of African American Drama
  • Chapter 14 Henry Ossawa Tanner and W. E. B. Du Bois: African American Art and “High Culture” at the Turn into the Twentieth Century
  • Chapter 15 The Folk, the School, and the Marketplace: Locations of Culture in The Souls of Black Folk
  • Topical List of Selected Works
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

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