Bibliograph

Post-bellum, pre-Harlem, African American literature and culture, 1877-1919, edited by Barbara McCaskill and Caroline Gebhard

Type

Label

Post-bellum, pre-Harlem, African American literature and culture, 1877-1919, edited by Barbara McCaskill and Caroline Gebhard

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-279) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Post-bellum, pre-Harlem

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

62766073

Responsibility statement

edited by Barbara McCaskill and Caroline Gebhard

Sub title

African American literature and culture, 1877-1919

Table Of Contents

Creative collaboration: as African American as sweet potato pie / Frances Smith Foster -- Commemorative ceremonies and invented traditions: history, memory, and modernity in the "new Negro" novel of the Nadir / Carla L. Peterson -- Landscapes of labor: race, religion, and Rhode Island in the painting of Edward Mitchell Bannister / Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw -- "Manly husbands and womanly wives": the leadership of educator Lucy Craft Laney / Audrey Thomas McCluskey -- Old and new issue servants: "race" men and women weigh in / Barbara Ryan -- Savannah's Colored Tribune, the Reverend E. K. Love, and the sacred rebellion of uplift / Barbara McCaskill -- A marginal man in Black Bohemia: James Weldon Johnson in the New York tenderloin / Robert M. Dowling -- Jamming with Julius: Charles Chesnutt and the post-bellum-pre-Harlem blues / Barbara A. Baker -- Rewriting Dunbar: realism, black women poets, and the genteel / Paula Bernat Bennett -- Inventing a "Negro Literature": race, dialect, and gender in the early work of Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson / Caroline Gebhard -- No excuses for our dirt: Booker T. Washington and a "new Negro" middle class / Philip J. Kowalski -- War work, social work, community work: Alice Dunbar-Nelson, federal war work agencies, and Southern African American women / Nikki L. Brown -- Antilynching plays: Angelina Weld Grimké, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and the evolution of African American drama / Koritha A. Mitchell -- Henry Ossawa Tanner and W. E. B. Du Bois: African American art and "high culture" at the turn into the twentieth century / Margaret Crumpton Winter and Rhonda Reymond -- The Folk, The School, and the Marketplace: Locations of Culture in The souls of black folk / Andrew J. Scheiber

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