Title Racial discourse and cosmopolitanism in twentieth-century African American writing / by Tania Friedel

Published New York : Routledge, 2008

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Description 1 online resource Series Studies in African American history and culture Studies in African American history and culture. Contents STUDIES IN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE; Contents; Credit Lines; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One Cane's Betrayal and Jean Toomer's Untethered Universalism; "THIS NEW AMERICAN RACE": MISCEGENATION AS SOLUTION; "FACING" THE SOUTH: MISCEGENATION AS DIFFICULT YET CREATIVE TENSION; THE BETRAYAL OF CANE: FROM HARMONY TO DISSONANCE; "THE WHOLE THING LINKED AND ORGANIC": MODERNITY, FRAGMENTATION AND THE DESIRE FOR WHOLENESS; "MANKIND UNITED": TOOMER'S FLIGHTS OF UNIVERSALIST FANCY Summary This book engages the critical mode of cosmopolitanism through racial discourse in the work of several major twentieth-century African American authors, such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Jean Toomer, Jessie Fauset, Langston Hughes and Albert Murray Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Cosmopolitanism in literature. Race in literature. African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century African Americans in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. African Americans in literature African Americans -- Intellectual life American literature American literature -- African American authors Cosmopolitanism in literature Race in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780203930380 020393038X 9781135893293 1135893292

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