Conjuring the folk : forms of modernity in African America / David G. Nicholls.

"In a series of revisionary readings, Nicholls studies how the folk is shaped by the ideology of form. He examines the presence of a spectral folk in Toomer's modernist pastiche, Cane, and explores how Hurston presents folklore as a contemporary language of resistance in her ethnography, M...

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Main Author: Nicholls, David, 1965-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2000.
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505 0 |a Conjuring the folk -- Modernism and the spectral folk: Jean Toomer's Cane -- Folklore and migrant labor: Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and men -- The folk as alternative modernity: Claude McKay's Banana bottom -- Rural modernity, migration, and the gender of autonomy: the novels of George Wylie Henderson -- The folk, the race, and class consciousness: Richard Wright's 12 million Black voices -- Conclusion: local histories and world historical narrative. 
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