Conjuring the folk : forms of modernity in African America

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.
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Literature and folklore > United States > History > 20th century.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans > Folklore.
Folklore in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Folklore.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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