African American Literature in Transition, 1900-1910: Volume 7

Shirley Moody-Turner is the author of Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation (2013) and Contemporary African American Literature: The Living Canon (2103). She is an award-winning teacher in the departments of English and African American Studies at Penn State University and co-director of the Center for Black Digital Research. She is a former fellow of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, Massachusetts.

• Acknowledgements; List of images; Introduction Shirley Moody-Turner; Part I. Transition in African American Authorship, Publishing and the Visual Arts: 1. Black bibliographers and the category of negro authorship Laura E. Helton; 2. Transitions in African American book publishing and print culture Alisha Knight; 3. Re-evaluating African American art before the Harlem renaissance Rhonda Reymond; Part II. New Negro Aesthetic and Transitions in Genre and Form: 4. African American novels and new slavery in the new south M. Giulia Fabi; 5. Anti-lynching poetry and the poetics of protest Laura Vrana; 6. The politics of performance, character, and literary genre in transition April Logan; Part III. Modernist Masculinities and Transitions in Black Leadership: 7. Charting the tensions between optimism and despair at mid-decade Hanna Wallinger; 8. W. E. B. Du Bois and transitions in black intellectual thought Keith Byerman; 9. Celebrity and black masculinity at the turn into the twentieth century Jeffrey Leak; Part IV. Remapping the Turn of the Twentieth Century: 10. Can the subaltern speak through Alain Locke and Paul Laurence Dunbar? Jeffrey Stewart; 11. Race and manhood in African American representations of the frontier James Leiker; 12. Narratives of black and Chinese citizenship after Plessy v. Ferguson Edlie Wong; 13. Black transpacific culture and the migratory imagination Vince Schleitwiler.

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