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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154610503321

Autore

Farebrother Rachel

Titolo

The collage aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance / / Rachel Farebrother

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-89257-6

1-315-24061-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

810.9/896073

Soggetti

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

African American aesthetics

Literature and anthropology - United States - History - 20th century

African Americans - Intellectual life - 20th century

Modernism (Literature) - United States

African Americans in literature

Harlem Renaissance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Boasian anthropology and the Harlem Renaissance -- 2. '[F]lung out in a jagged, uneven but progressive pattern' : 'culture-citizenship' in The new Negro -- 3. '[A]dventuring through the pieces of a still unorganized mosaic' : Jean Toomer's collage aesthetic in Cane -- 4. 'Think[ing] in hieroglyphics' : Zora Neale Hurston's cross-cultural aesthetic -- 5. Reading Zora Neale Hurston's textual synthesis in Jonah's gourd vine and Moses, man of the mountain.