Title The collage aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance / Rachel Farebrother

Published Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009] ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 219 pages) : illustrations Contents Boasian anthropology and the Harlem Renaissance -- "[F]lung out in a jagged, uneven but progressive pattern": "culture-citizenship" in The new negro -- "[A]dventuring through the pieces of a still unorganized mosaic": Jean Toomer's collage aesthetic in Cane -- "Think[ing] in hieroglyphics": Zora Neale Hurston's cross-cultural aesthetic -- Reading Zora Neale Hurston's textual synthesis in Jonah's gourd vine and Moses, man of the mountain Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-212) and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism. American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. African American aesthetics. Literature and anthropology -- United States -- History -- 20th century. African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. Modernism (Literature) -- United States. African Americans in literature. Harlem Renaissance. Form Electronic book Author Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781315240619 (electronic bk.) 1315240610 (electronic bk.)

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