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Vicious Modernism Black Harlem and the Literary Imagination

Paperback • 2009 • English

Vicious Modernism Black Harlem and the Literary Imagination

By James de Jongh

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About the book

Harlem, a quintessentially black city in the midst of a great modern metropolis, has piqued the imagination of writers and artists since the turn of the century. Its subsequent history as a legendary cultural centre and a notorious ghetto only intensified its mystique and inspired large numbers of writers, among them Sherwood Anderson, Federico Garcia Lorca, Fannie Hurst, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Ishmael Reed, and Tom Wolfe. In Vicious Modernism, James de Jongh traces the evolution of the i...Show more

Classic fiction: general and literary
Afrofuturism / Black Speculative fiction

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ISBN

9780521123303

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

2009

Language

English

Original title

Vicious Modernism Black Harlem and the Literary Imagination

Format

Paperback

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