LEADER 04713nam 2200685 450 001 9910796570203321 005 20200520144314.0 035 $a(CKB)3880000000003378 035 $a(EBL)2076491 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001517868 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12496728 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001517868 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11510796 035 $a(PQKB)10030725 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2076491 035 $a(OCoLC)913138567 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse41859 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2076491 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11070998 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL803559 035 $a(OCoLC)913099254 035 $a(PPN)195013395 035 $a(EXLCZ)993880000000003378 100 $a20150415h20152015 ub| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSpoofing the modern $esatire in the Harlem Renaissance /$fDarryl Dickson-Carr 210 1$aColumbia :$cUniversity of South Carolina Press,$d[2015] 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (173 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-61117-492-9 311 $a1-61117-493-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Spoofing the Modern; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Toward a Revision of the Harlem Renaissance; 2 The Importance of Being Iconoclastic: George S. Schuyler, the Messenger, and the Black Menckenites; 3 Wallace Thurman, Richard Bruce Nugent, and the Reification of "Race," Aesthetics, and Sexuality; 4 Dickties vs. Rats: Class and Regional Differences within the New Negro Movement; 5 Punchlines; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $a"Spoofing the Modern is the first book devoted solely to studying the role satire played in the movement known as the "New Negro," or Harlem, Renaissance from 1919 to 1940. As the first era in which African American writers and artists enjoyed frequent access to and publicity from major New York-based presses, the Harlem Renaissance helped the talents, concerns, and criticisms of African Americans to reach a wider audience in the 1920s and 1930s. These writers and artists joined a growing chorus of modernity that frequently resonated in the caustic timbre of biting satire and parody. The Harlem Renaissance was simultaneously the first major African American literary movement of the twentieth century and the first major blooming of satire by African Americans. Such authors as folklorist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, poet Langston Hughes, journalist George S. Schuyler, writer-editor-poet Wallace Thurman, physician Rudolph Fisher, and artist Richard Bruce Nugent found satire an attractive means to criticize not only American racism, but also the trials of American culture careening toward modernity. Frequently, they directed their satiric barbs toward each other, lampooning the painful processes through which African American artists struggled with modernity, often defined by fads and superficial understandings of culture. Dickson-Carr argues that these satirists provided the Harlem Renaissance with much of its most incisive cultural criticism. The book opens by analyzing the historical, political, and cultural circumstances that allowed for the "New Negro" in general and African American satire in particular to flourish in the 1920s. Each subsequent chapter then introduces the major satirists within the larger movement by placing each author's career in a broader cultural context, including those authors who shared similar views. Spoofing the Modern concludes with an overview that demonstrates how Harlem Renaissance authors influenced later cultural and literary movements"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHarlem Renaissance 606 $aSatire, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican Americans in literature 606 $aAfrican Americans in popular culture 607 $aHarlem (New York, N.Y.)$xIntellectual life$y20th century 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHarlem Renaissance. 615 0$aSatire, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in literature. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in popular culture. 676 $a810.9/896073 686 $aLIT004040$2bisacsh 700 $aDickson-Carr$b Darryl$f1968-$01127223 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910796570203321 996 $aSpoofing the modern$93795018 997 $aUNINA