Crossroads modernism : descent and emergence in African-American literary culture /

Crossroads modernism : descent and emergence in African-American literary culture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pavlic, Edward M. (Edward Michael)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2002]
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
African Americans in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Down to the crossroads : a preface
  • "Compared to what?" : toward an African-American modernist discourse
  • Blues and the abstract truth : the politics of abandonment and democratic vistas of descent in Afro-modernism
  • Come on in my kitchen : the communal underground in Zora Neale Hurston's diasporic modernism
  • Follow me into a solo : jazz, history, and reckoning with diasporic dissociation in James Baldwin and David Bradley.