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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