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Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination Ain’t Got No Home: America’s Great Migrations and the Making of an Interracial Left Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s

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Alexis Pauline Gumbs
American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 415–418.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3533434
Published: 01 June 2016
...Alexis Pauline Gumbs Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination . By Mizelle Richard M. Jr. Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2014 . xii, 209 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper, $25.00 . Ain’t Got No Home: America’s Great Migrations...
View articletitled, Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Imagination Ain’t Got No Home: America’s Great Migrations and the Making of an Interracial Left Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Literature The Other Blacklist: The <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s View PDF for article titled, Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Imagination Ain’t Got No Home: America’s Great Migrations and the Making of an Interracial Left Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Literature The Other Blacklist: The <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s
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Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American Culture and the American Sixties; Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between the Wars: A New Pandora's Box; South of Tradition: Essays on African American Literature

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Stephen P. Knadler
American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 191–194.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-1-191
Published: 01 March 2004
...: New York Univ. Press. 2002. xvi, 205 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $19.00. Scholarship on literature depicting or produced by enslaved Africans in the diaspora has turned toward trauma in recent years. Angelyn Mitchell’s mono- graph on contemporary black women’s fiction that depicts both slavery...
View articletitled, Mercy, Mercy Me: <span class="search-highlight">African</span>-American Culture and the American Sixties; Nationalism, Marxism, and <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Literature between the Wars: A New Pandora&#x27;s Box; South of Tradition: Essays on <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Literature View PDF for article titled, Mercy, Mercy Me: <span class="search-highlight">African</span>-American Culture and the American Sixties; Nationalism, Marxism, and <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Literature between the Wars: A New Pandora&#x27;s Box; South of Tradition: Essays on <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Literature
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Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction; Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku; Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature; Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance

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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 177–180.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-070
Published: 01 March 2008
... © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction . By James W. Coleman. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2006. 252 pp. $42.95. Cross-Cultural Visions in African...
View articletitled, Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Fiction; Cross-Cultural Visions in <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku; Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Literature; Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance View PDF for article titled, Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Fiction; Cross-Cultural Visions in <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku; Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Literature; Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance
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On Freedom and the Will to Adorn: The Art of the African American Essay Empire of Ruin: Black Classicism and American Imperial Culture Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature

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Noelle Dubay
American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 333–335.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9003638
Published: 01 June 2021
...Noelle Dubay [email protected] On Freedom and the Will to Adorn: The Art of the African American Essay . By Cheryl A. Wall Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . 2018 . x, 276 pp. Cloth, $90.00 ; paper, $29.95 ; e-book available. Empire of Ruin: Black...
View articletitled, On Freedom and the Will to Adorn: The Art of the <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Essay Empire of Ruin: Black Classicism and American Imperial Culture Reaping Something New: <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Transformations of Victorian Literature View PDF for article titled, On Freedom and the Will to Adorn: The Art of the <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Essay Empire of Ruin: Black Classicism and American Imperial Culture Reaping Something New: <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Transformations of Victorian Literature
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Grounds of Engagement: Apartheid-Era African American and South African Writing Being Apart: Theoretical and Existential Resistance in Africana Literature

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Leigh Anne Duck
American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 641–643.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4160966
Published: 01 September 2017
...Leigh Anne Duck Grounds of Engagement: Apartheid-Era African American and South African Writing . By Robolin Stéphane . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois Press . 2015 . xiii, 237 pp. Cloth , $45.00 ; e-book, $30.00 . Being Apart: Theoretical and Existential Resistance in Africana...
View articletitled, Grounds of Engagement: Apartheid-Era <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American and South <span class="search-highlight">African</span> Writing Being Apart: Theoretical and Existential Resistance in Africana Literature View PDF for article titled, Grounds of Engagement: Apartheid-Era <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American and South <span class="search-highlight">African</span> Writing Being Apart: Theoretical and Existential Resistance in Africana Literature
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Unbought and Unbossed: Transgressive Black Women, Sexuality, and Representation Critical Appropriations: African American Women and the Construction of Transnational Identity Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women’s Novels

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Magdalena J. Zaborowska
American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 654–657.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4161014
Published: 01 September 2017
...Magdalena J. Zaborowska Unbought and Unbossed: Transgressive Black Women, Sexuality, and Representation . By Melancon Trimiko . Philadelphia, PA : Temple Univ. Press . 2014 . xv, 235 pp. Cloth , $74.50 ; paper, $26.95 ; e-book, $26.95 . Critical Appropriations: African...
View articletitled, Unbought and Unbossed: Transgressive Black Women, Sexuality, and Representation Critical Appropriations: <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Women and the Construction of Transnational Identity Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Women’s Novels View PDF for article titled, Unbought and Unbossed: Transgressive Black Women, Sexuality, and Representation Critical Appropriations: <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Women and the Construction of Transnational Identity Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Women’s Novels
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Ghosts of the African Diaspora: Re-visioning History, Memory, and Identity How to Read African American Literature: Post-Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life

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Andreá N. Williams
American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 186–188.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8056707
Published: 01 March 2020
...Andreá N. Williams Ghosts of the African Diaspora: Re-visioning History, Memory, and Identity . By Joanne Chassot . Hanover, NH : Dartmouth College Press . 2018. xii, 247 pp. Cloth, $95.00 ; paper, $45.00 ; e-book, $7.99 . How to Read African American Literature: Post-Civil...
View articletitled, Ghosts of the <span class="search-highlight">African</span> Diaspora: Re-visioning History, Memory, and Identity How to Read <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Literature: Post-Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life View PDF for article titled, Ghosts of the <span class="search-highlight">African</span> Diaspora: Re-visioning History, Memory, and Identity How to Read <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Literature: Post-Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life
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A History of the African American Novel African American Writing: A Literary Approach

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Christopher Brown
American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 376–379.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8267816
Published: 01 June 2020
...Christopher Brown A History of the African American Novel . By Valerie Babb . Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press . 2017 . xi, 486 pp. Cloth, $ 46.99 ; e-book, $ 38.00 . African American Writing: A Literary Approach . By Werner Sollors . Philadelphia : Temple Univ. Press...
View articletitled, A History of the <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Novel <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Writing: A Literary Approach View PDF for article titled, A History of the <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Novel <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Writing: A Literary Approach
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James Weldon Johnson's Modern Soundscapes Jazz Griots: Music as History in the 1960s African American Poem Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature

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Gayle Wald
American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 841–843.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3329638
Published: 01 December 2015
...Gayle Wald Book Reviews  841 James Weldon Johnson’s Modern Soundscapes. By Noelle Morrissette. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2013. xiii, 243 pp. Paper, $45.00. Jazz Griots: Music as History in the 1960s African American Poem. By Jean...
View articletitled, James Weldon Johnson&#x27;s Modern Soundscapes Jazz Griots: Music as History in the 1960s <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Poem Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Literature View PDF for article titled, James Weldon Johnson&#x27;s Modern Soundscapes Jazz Griots: Music as History in the 1960s <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Poem Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Literature
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Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry / Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants: Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s / The Muse Is Music: Jazz Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to Spoken Word

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J. Peter Moore
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 664–666.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1664782
Published: 01 September 2012
...J. Peter Moore Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry . By Shockley Evie . Iowa City : Univ. of Iowa Press . 2011 . xii , 264 pp. Paper , $39.95 . Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants: Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s...
View articletitled, Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Poetry &#x2F; Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants: Recovering the <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Poetry of the 1930s &#x2F; The Muse Is Music: Jazz Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to Spoken Word View PDF for article titled, Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Poetry &#x2F; Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants: Recovering the <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Poetry of the 1930s &#x2F; The Muse Is Music: Jazz Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to Spoken Word
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Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership Exodus Politics: Civil Rights and Leadership in African American Literature and Culture Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature

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Stephen Knadler
American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 651–654.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3650331
Published: 01 September 2016
...Stephen Knadler Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership . By Edwards Erica R. . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2012 . xii, 249 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper, $25.00 , e-book available. Exodus Politics: Civil Rights and Leadership in African American Literature...
View articletitled, Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership Exodus Politics: Civil Rights and Leadership in <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Literature and Culture Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Literature View PDF for article titled, Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership Exodus Politics: Civil Rights and Leadership in <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Literature and Culture Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Literature
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Preacher Woman Sings the Blues: The Autobiographies of Nineteenth-Century African American Evangelists; Sentimental Confessions: Spiritual Narratives of Nineteenth-Century African American Women

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Timothy Powell
American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 645–647.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-3-645
Published: 01 September 2002
.... $26.00. In recent years there has been a regular flow of scholarship on the Atlantic slave trade; comparatively little, however, has appeared on the internal trans- portation, distribution, and relocation of large numbers of these African men, women, and children, and their descendents, within...
View articletitled, Preacher Woman Sings the Blues: The Autobiographies of Nineteenth-Century <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Evangelists; Sentimental Confessions: Spiritual Narratives of Nineteenth-Century <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Women View PDF for article titled, Preacher Woman Sings the Blues: The Autobiographies of Nineteenth-Century <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Evangelists; Sentimental Confessions: Spiritual Narratives of Nineteenth-Century <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Women
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Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson; The Origins of African American Literature: A History of the African American Literary Presence, 1680-1865

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Stephen Knadler
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 201–203.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-201
Published: 01 March 2003
... Book Reviews 201 Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson. By Keith Clark. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2002. x, 164 pp. $34.95. The Origins of African American Literature...
View articletitled, Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson; The Origins of <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Literature: A History of the <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Literary Presence, 1680-1865 View PDF for article titled, Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson; The Origins of <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Literature: A History of the <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Literary Presence, 1680-1865
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Public Native America: Tribal Self-Representation in Museums, Powwows, and Casinos; Disturbing Indians: The Archaeology of Southern Fiction; Matter, Magic, and Spirit: Representing Indian and African American Belief; Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country

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Michael A. Elliott
American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 416–419.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-012
Published: 01 June 2008
...: The Archaeology of Southern Fiction . By Annette Trefzer. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2007. xii, 223 pp. $38.50. Matter, Magic, and Spirit: Representing Indian and African American Belief . By David Murray. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2007. 213 pp. $59.95. Crossing Waters...
View articletitled, Public Native America: Tribal Self-Representation in Museums, Powwows, and Casinos; Disturbing Indians: The Archaeology of Southern Fiction; Matter, Magic, and Spirit: Representing Indian and <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Belief; Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The <span class="search-highlight">African</span> Diaspora in Indian Country View PDF for article titled, Public Native America: Tribal Self-Representation in Museums, Powwows, and Casinos; Disturbing Indians: The Archaeology of Southern Fiction; Matter, Magic, and Spirit: Representing Indian and <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Belief; Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The <span class="search-highlight">African</span> Diaspora in Indian Country
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Eating the Black Body: Miscegenation as Sexual Consumption in African American Literature and Culture; Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature; Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona in Post-Soul America

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Joseph Helminski
American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 422–424.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-014
Published: 01 June 2008
...Joseph Helminski © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Eating the Black Body: Miscegenation as Sexual Consumption in African American Literature and Culture . By Carlyle Van Thompson. New York: Peter Lang. 2006. xiii, 231 pp. Paper, $29.95. Deans and Truants: Race and Realism...
View articletitled, Eating the Black Body: Miscegenation as Sexual Consumption in <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Literature and Culture; Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Literature; Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona in Post-Soul America View PDF for article titled, Eating the Black Body: Miscegenation as Sexual Consumption in <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Literature and Culture; Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Literature; Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona in Post-Soul America
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The White African American Body: A Cultural and Literary Exploration; Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel

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Adam Gussow
American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 888–890.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-4-888
Published: 01 December 2003
... The White African American Body: A Cultural and Literary Exploration. By Charles D. Martin. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2002. xi, 221. Cloth, $59.00; paper, $22.00. Passing and the Rise...
View articletitled, The White <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Body: A Cultural and Literary Exploration; Passing and the Rise of the <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Novel View PDF for article titled, The White <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Body: A Cultural and Literary Exploration; Passing and the Rise of the <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Novel
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Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861; The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots and Modern Literary Branches

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Stephen Knadler
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 880–882.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-061
Published: 01 December 2006
...Stephen Knadler Duke University Press 2006 Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861 . By John Ernest. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2004. xiv, 426 pp. Cloth, $64.95; paper, $24.95. The Contemporary African...
View articletitled, Liberation Historiography: <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861; The Contemporary <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Novel: Its Folk Roots and Modern Literary Branches View PDF for article titled, Liberation Historiography: <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861; The Contemporary <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Novel: Its Folk Roots and Modern Literary Branches
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Figure 2 Oil painting of African woman wearing red coral necklace and child, painted by Albert Eckhout in 1641. Photograph by John Lee. National Museum Denmark

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Published: 01 June 2019
Figure 2 Oil painting of African woman wearing red coral necklace and child, painted by Albert Eckhout in 1641. Photograph by John Lee. National Museum Denmark More
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“Split by the Moonlight”: Beethoven and the Racial Sublime in African American Literature

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Tamlyn Avery
American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 623–652.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8780863
Published: 01 December 2020
... and complicated mark on African American literature relating to the sublime properties of his musical aesthetic than has previously been recognized. As a point of departure, I apply Michael J. Shapiro’s definition of the racial sublime as a confrontation with the “still vast oppressive structure that imperils...
View articletitled, “Split by the Moonlight”: Beethoven and the Racial Sublime in <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Literature View PDF for article titled, “Split by the Moonlight”: Beethoven and the Racial Sublime in <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Literature
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Measuring the Harlem Renaissance: The U.S. Census, African American Identity, and Literary Form On Sympathetic Grounds: Race, Gender, and Affective Geographies in Nineteenth-Century North America

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Lori Merish
American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 329–332.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9003624
Published: 01 June 2021
... for future urban development” (132) elsewhere, it consolidated Harlem’s racial meaning as locus of the “New Negro,” evidencing the black community’s “forward-looking potential” (146) and constituting a portable signifier for modern blackness (144–6). Harlem’s identity as “symbolic center for African American...
View articletitled, Measuring the Harlem Renaissance: The U.S. Census, <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Identity, and Literary Form On Sympathetic Grounds: Race, Gender, and Affective Geographies in Nineteenth-Century North America View PDF for article titled, Measuring the Harlem Renaissance: The U.S. Census, <span class="search-highlight">African</span> American Identity, and Literary Form On Sympathetic Grounds: Race, Gender, and Affective Geographies in Nineteenth-Century North America