Title African American literature in transition 1930-1940 / edited by Eve Dunbar, Ayesha K. Hardison

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 352 pages) : illustrations Series African American literature in transition ; [volume 10] African American literature in transition ; v. 10. Contents Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Preface: African American Literature in Transition -- Chronology, 1930-1940 -- Introduction -- Part I Productive Precarity and Literary Realism -- Chapter 1 Black Excesses and Deprivations in Literature and Photography of the 1930s -- Chapter 2 Arna Bontemps and Black Literary Archives -- Chapter 3 Black Women's 1930s Protest Fiction -- Part II New Deal, New Methodologies -- Chapter 4 Folklore, Folk Life, and Ethnography in African American Writing of the 1930s Chapter 5 New Deal Discourses -- Chapter 6 Black Theatre Archives and the Making of a Black Dramatic Tradition -- Part III Cultivating (New) Black Readers -- Chapter 7 Racial Representation and the Performance of 1930s African American Literary History -- Chapter 8 Black Print Culture of the 1930s -- Part IV International, Black, and Radical Visions -- Chapter 9 Democracy Unfinished: African Americans Writing "Africa" -- Chapter 10 Langston Hughes and the 1930s: From Harlem to the USSR -- Chapter 11 Black Cultural (Inter)nationalism: Communism and African American Writing in the Great Depression Summary "The volume's first section demonstrates the subtle influence of the Great Depression's devastation on Black literary themes and methodologies by situating more well-known figures within a wide matrix of lesser known writers, thinkers, and cultural workers. In this way, the volume's opening chapters expand our grasp of the literary tradition by foregrounding the manifestation of economic anxieties in the career trajectories of numerous Black writers as well as the subject matter and conventions employed in their various works. Sharon L. Jones proposes in her introductory chapter that we might trace writers' preoccupations with excess and deprivation as emerging as staple tropes of Depression-era writing"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 21, 2022) Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century African Americans in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. African Americans in literature African Americans -- Intellectual life American literature -- African American authors Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book Author Dunbar, Eve, 1976- editor. Hardison, Ayesha K., editor. LC no. 2021025399 ISBN 9781108560665 1108560660

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