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Author McCaskill, Barbara

Title Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem : African American Literature and Culture, 1877-1919
Published New York : NYU Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (312 pages)
Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Reimagining the Past; 1 Creative Collaboration: As African American as Sweet Potato Pie; 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); 3 Landscapes of Labor: Race, Religion, and Rhode Island in the Painting of Edward Mitchell Bannister; 4 "Manly Husbands and Womanly Wives": The Leadership of Educator Lucy Craft Laney; 5 Old and New Issue Servants: "Race" Men and Women Weigh In
6 Savannah's Colored Tribune, the Reverend E.K. Love, and the Sacred Rebellion of UpliftPart III. Encountering Jim Crow: African American Literaturer and the Mainstream (1890s); 7 A Marginal Man in Black Bohemia: James Weldon Johnson in the New York Tenderloin; 8 Jamming with Julius: Charles Chesnutt and the Post-Bellum -- Pre-Harlem Blues; 9 Rewriting Dunbar: Realism, Black Women Poets, and the Genteel; 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
11 No Excuses for Our Dirt: Booker T. Washington and a "New Negro" Middle Class12 War Work, Social Work, Community Work: Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Federal War Work Agencies, and Southern African American Women; 13 Antilynching Plays: Angelina Weld Grimké, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and theEvolution of African American Drama; 14 Henry Ossawa Tanner and W.E.B. Du Bois: African American Art and "High Culture" at the Turn into the Twentieth Century; 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
Summary 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 flowering and racial self-consciousness of the Harlem Renaissance. Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem offers fresh perspectives on the literary and cultural achievements of African American men and women during this critically neglected, though vitally important, period of our nation's past. Using a wide range of d
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Subject African American arts -- 20th century
African American arts -- 19th century
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays.
African American arts
Form Electronic book
Author Gebhard, Caroline
ISBN 9780814764213
0814764215
0814731686
9780814731680
0814731678
9780814731673