Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History

Kathy Lou Schultz is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Memphis, USA where she directs the Honors Program.

• 1: Modern, Modernist, Afro-Modernist: Melvin B. Tolson in the 1930s and 40s 2: A Poem for the Futurafrique: Tolson's Libretto for the Republic of Liberia 3: 'In the Modern Vein': Tolson's Harlem Gallery 4: Bound By Law—Langston Hughes in/and the 1950s 5: Toward An Afro-Modernist Future: Langston's Hughes's ASK YOUR MAMA: 12 MOODS FOR JAZZ 6: Amiri Baraka's Wise Why's Y's: Lineages of the Afro-Modernist Epic

“Kathy Lou Schultz’s The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History: Tolson, Hughes, Baraka is a useful contribution to scholarship on the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance, with an extended chapter concluding the study on Amiri Baraka.” (A Year's Work in English Studies, 2015)