Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem

Barbara McCaskill is General Sandy Beaver teaching professor and associate professor of English at The University of Georgia.Caroline Gebhard is associate professor of English at Tuskegee University.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Caroline Gebhard and Barbara McCaskillPart I : Reimagining the Past1 Creative Collaboration2 Commemorative Ceremonies and Invented TraditionsPart II : Meeting Freedom: Self-Invention, Artistic Innovation, and Race Progress (1870s-1880s)3 Landscapes of Labor4 "Manly Husbands and Womanly Wives"vii5 Old and New Issue Servants6 Savannah's Colored Tribune, the Reverend E. K. Love, and the Sacred Rebellion of Uplift Part III : Encountering Jim Crow: African American Literature and the Mainstream (1890s)7 A Marginal Man in Black Bohemia8 Jamming with Julius9 Rewriting Dunbar10 Inventing a "Negro Literature"Part IV : Turning the Century: New Political, Cultural,and Personal Aesthetics (1900-1917)11 No Excuses for Our Dirt12 War Work, Social Work, Community Work:13 Antilynching Plays14 Henry Ossawa Tanner and W. E. B. Du Bois15 The Folk, the School, and the MarketplaceTopical List of Selected Works About the Contributors Index

"This is a vital reappraisal. These essays compellingly return to the often-neglected period known in African American history as 'The Nadir' to ensure that it will never again be seen as a cultural disappointment." - Carla Kaplan,author of Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters "This is a rich portrait of a complex period that has been long neglected." (Booklist) " Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem presents a compelling case for viewing the years between 1877 and 1919 as a time of outstanding literary and cultural achievement for African American men and women. . . . McCaskill and Gebhard are to be commended for the thought-provoking volume that identifies convincingly and documents meticulously the origins of "modern" African American literature. Based on solid scholarship and extensive interdisciplinary research, Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem is a significant resource for scholars in the fields of African American history and literature. 8221;" (The Journal of African American History) "Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem is a valuable book. These fifteen essays offer a broad overview of a rich and complicated period and complement the growing body of scholarship that takes as its focus this important and previously under-appreciated era." (The Journal of the Society for the Study of the MultiEthnic Literature of the United States)