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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789467903321

Autore

Schlabach Elizabeth Schroeder

Titolo

Along the streets of Bronzeville : black Chicago's literary landscape / / Elizabeth Schroeder Schlabach

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana : , : University of Illinois Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-252-09510-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (167 p.)

Collana

The new black studies series

Disciplina

810.9/977311

Soggetti

American literature - Illinois - Chicago - History and criticism

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

African Americans - Illinois - Chicago - Intellectual life

Chicago (Ill.) Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

From black belt to Bronzeville -- The South Side community art center and South Side writers group -- Policy, creativity, and Bronzeville's dreams -- Two Bronzeville autobiographies -- Kitchenettes.

Sommario/riassunto

'Along the Streets of Bronzeville' examines the flowering of African American creativity, activism, and scholarship in the South Side Chicago district known as Bronzeville during the period between the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920's and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960's.