The muse in Bronzeville : African American creative expression in Chicago, 1932-1950 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bone, Robert, 1924-2007
Other Authors: Courage, Richard A., 1946-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2011]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. An account of origins
  • The Tuskegee connection
  • Charles S. Johnson and the Parkian Tradition
  • The new negro in Chicago
  • Pt. 2. Bronzeville's social muse
  • Year of transition
  • Birthing the blues and other Black musical forms
  • Bronzeville and the documentary spirit
  • The documentary eye
  • Bronzeville's "writing clan"
  • Bronzeville and the novel
  • Bronzeville and the poets
  • The wheel turns
  • Appendix A: artists of Bronzeville
  • Appendix B: African Americans employed by Illinois Writers' Project.