Title African American literature in transition, 1920-1930 / edited by Miriam Thaggert, University of Iowa ; Rachel Farebrother, Swansea University

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

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Description 1 online resource Series African American literature in transition ; 9 Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Preface -- Introduction: Expecting More: African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930 -- Notes -- Part I Habitus, Sound, Fashion -- Chapter 1 New Negro Literary Décor: Competing Tastes in the 1920s -- Literary Hosts and Fashion Mavens -- A Colored Vanity Fair -- Toomer and the DC Set -- Notes -- Chapter 2 The New Negro Movement's Recording Imaginary -- New Negro Soundscape -- Zora Neale Hurston's Living Lore The Sounds of Migration -- Langston Hughes's Acousmatic Poetics -- Sterling Brown's Performative Transcriptions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Sartorial Self-Fashioning in the Harlem Renaissance -- Clothing and the Fashioning of Subjectivity -- Fabricating Modern Portraits -- A Literary Portrait of Loss -- The Exposure of Words and Clothes -- Writing and Dressmaking -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part II Space: Chronicles of Harlem and Beyond -- Chapter 4 Going Dutch: From Renaissance Haarlem to the Harlem Renaissance -- Exacting Dutchness -- From Haarlem to Harlem One Hundred Percent Americanism -- Say It Loud: I'm Dutch Black and I'm Proud -- Notes -- Chapter 5 The Unmaking of the New Negro Mecca -- ''Without any race friction'' -- ''He still meets with discrimination and disadvantages'' -- Nighttime in Harlem -- ''Maintaining 'a high class of respectability' in negro neighborhoods'' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Subversions of Boasian Anthropology in Zora Neale Hurston's Great Migration Fiction and Ethnography -- Hurston among the Boasians -- Migration Fiction and the Making of an Anthropologist -- Barracoon -- Conclusion -- Notes Chapter 7 W. E. B. Du Bois and the Fluid Subject: Dark Princess and the Splendid Transnational in the Harlem Renaissance -- Du Bois and the Aesthetic -- Du Bois in the 1920s -- Dark Princess and the Splendid Transnational -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part III Uplift Renewed: Religion, Protest, and Education -- Chapter 8 ''The sinful babel of the airshaft'': Rudolph Fisher's Fiction and Religion, Urban Space, and Modernity in the Harlem Renaissance -- Religion and Urban Space -- Scenes of Worship -- Rudolph Fisher's Short Fiction -- The Walls of Jericho -- Conclusion -- Notes Chapter 9 Marcus Garvey: Popular Culture and Black Liberation -- Up, You Mighty Race! -- Binaries are Evil -- Garvey's Hat -- Garvey's Noise -- Black Utopias -- Styling Garveyism -- Notes -- Chapter 10 Progression or Regression of the Black Race?: Historically Black Colleges and Racial Uplift in Nella Larsen's Quicksand -- Contextualizing Racial Identity through Education -- Life Informs Art: Larsen's Experience at Tuskegee -- Racial Uplift and the Black Bourgeoisie -- Notes -- Part IV Serial Reading: Magazines and Periodical Culture Summary "African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930 presents original essays that map ideological, historical, and cultural shifts in the 1920s. Complicating the familiar reading of the 1920s as a decade that began with a spectacular boom and ended with disillusionment and bust, the collection explores the range and diversity of Black cultural production. Emphasizing a generative contrast between the ephemeral qualities of periodicals, clothes, and décor and the relative fixity of canonical texts, this volume captures in its dynamics a cultural movement that was fluid and expansive. Chapters by leading scholars are grouped into four sections: "Habitus, Sound, Fashion"; "Spaces: Chronicles of Harlem and Beyond"; "Uplift Renewed: Religion, Protest, and Education," and "Serial Reading: Magazines and Periodical Culture.""-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 12, 2022) Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century African Americans in literature. African Americans in literature African Americans -- Intellectual life American literature -- African American authors Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book Author Thaggert, Miriam, editor Farebrother, Rachel, editor LC no. 2021033259 ISBN 9781108992039 110899203X

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