African American Literature in Transition, 1930-1940: Volume 10

Eve Dunbar is Professor of English at Vassar College (NY). She is the author of Black Regions of the Imagination: African American Writers Between the Nation and the World (2012). Ayesha K. Hardison is an associate Professor at the University of Kansas. She is the author of Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature (2014) which won the Nancy Dasher Award and was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

• Introduction Eve Dunbar and Ayesha K. Hardison; Part I. Productive Precarity and Literary Realism: 1. Black excesses and deprivations in literature and photography of the 1930s Sharon Lynette Jones; 2. Arna Bontemps and black literary archives Emily Lutenski; 3. Black women's 1930s protest fiction Jennifer D. Williams; Part II. New Deal, New Methodologies: 4. Folklore, folk life and ethnography in African American Writing of the 1930s Robin Lucy; 5. New deal discourses J. J. Butts; 6. Black theatre archives and the making of a black dramatic tradition Kate Dossett; Part III. Cultivating (New) Black Readers: 7. Racial representation and the performance of 1930s African American literary history John Edgar Tidwell; 8. 1930s black print cultures Shawn Anthony Christian; Part IV. International, Black and Radical Visions: 9. Democracy unfinished: African Americans writing 'Africa' Nicole A. Waligora-Davis; 10. Langston Hughes and the 1930s: From Harlem to the USSR Cynthia Davis and Verner D. Mitchell; 11. Communism and African American literature in the great depression Nathaniel Mills.

'… an important collection that helps us rethink the presumptions about an artistically thriving decade in African American literary history.' Jesse Cook, MELUS