Racial discourse and cosmopolitanism in twentieth-century African American writing / by Tania Friedel.

This book engages the critical mode of cosmopolitanism through racial discourse in the work of several major twentieth-century African American authors, such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Jean Toomer, Jessie Fauset, Langston Hughes and Albert Murray.

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Main Author: Friedel, Tania, 1973-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2008.
Series:Studies in African American history and culture.
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Table of Contents:
  • STUDIES IN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE; Contents; Credit Lines; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One Cane's Betrayal and Jean Toomer's Untethered Universalism; "THIS NEW AMERICAN RACE": MISCEGENATION AS SOLUTION; "FACING" THE SOUTH: MISCEGENATION AS DIFFICULT YET CREATIVE TENSION; THE BETRAYAL OF CANE: FROM HARMONY TO DISSONANCE; "THE WHOLE THING LINKED AND ORGANIC": MODERNITY, FRAGMENTATION AND THE DESIRE FOR WHOLENESS; "MANKIND UNITED": TOOMER'S FLIGHTS OF UNIVERSALIST FANCY.