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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (2): 147–172.
Published: 01 June 2015
... Cadillac on a US senator’s lawn to protest the senator’s racist pronouncements, I argue that Ellison adopts expressive strategies of black vernacular culture—the ritual of the dozens and African American automotive consumption—to explicate a singular conception of literary commitment, one that seeks...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (1): 99–106.
Published: 01 March 2010
... traditionally accepted surrealists. He characterizes Himes’s crime
fiction as a form of “vernacular surrealism” (246), a subversively comic
deployment of African American vernacular culture that extended the
surrealist movement’s ideological and epistemological critiques into a
popular genre...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (3): 388–419.
Published: 01 September 2003
... that Ellison attempts to expand the
boundaries of history to include the previously unacknowledged records
of African-American and vernacular culture. But although these critics
have devoted considerable attention to the forms of history on display in
Invisible Man, few of them have addressed...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 417–423.
Published: 01 September 2015
... and cultural legacies. As fluent in jazz history and theory as he is in the vernacular traditions of African American poetry, Marcoux elucidates the innovative formal practices of these challenging poets. Marcoux’s introductory definition of the griot is at once precise and flexible enough to accommodate...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (3): 428–435.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., that the African American vernacular tradition needs
to expand to include poets even Langston Hughes, the champion of the
vernacular, appreciated: “it would seem unseemly for those of us who read
after Langston Hughes to be less capacious and more captious in our cri-
tique than he was” (xiv). Rather than...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (2): 243–250.
Published: 01 June 2014
... commitment to
African American folk culture, has now moved to center stage in his
critical reception, as scholars such as James Smethurst, Anthony Dawahare,
William J. Maxwell, Kate Baldwin, Cary Nelson, and David Chioni
Moore have positioned Hughes as a major figure in complex international...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 364–371.
Published: 01 December 2011
... and in it” (339). Contrary to critical
claims about their stronger grip on the social referent, African-American
and other “minority” postmodern writers pointedly depart from realism
in order to signal the difficulty of positing either a knowable community
or a clear social function for the novel...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 213–219.
Published: 01 June 2017
... ; Nurhussein 2013 ; Rambsy 2013 ; Ramey 2008 . Works cited Bolden Tony . 2004 . Afro-Blue: Improvisations in African American Poetry and Culture . Urbana : University of Illinois Press . Gabbin Joanne V. 1999 . The Furious Flowering of African American Poetry . New Brunswick...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 37–78.
Published: 01 March 2013
... ventriloquism” (9), James Weldon Johnson and older New Negro
leaders argued that acting modern meant not writing or speaking “too
black” because African-American dialect had been so tarred and tarnished
by its historical associations with minstrelsy and racism (10). Even when
younger Harlem Renaissance...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (2): 197–216.
Published: 01 June 2001
... and ideals.
While those interested in postcolonial theory have tended to casti
gate modernism, those who study African American or Caribbean writ
ers have been more willing to employ modernism as a useful conceptual
category. For example, in Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, Houston...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (3): 374–390.
Published: 01 September 2001
... introduction of the hero then combines the epic epithet
(“sea-smart” Odysseus) with the African-American influenced colloqui
alism “my main man.”
Walcott’s primary signification of geographic displacement is under
scored macaronically, however, in the fifth line’s transliterated Greek: “An
dra...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (2): 269–278.
Published: 01 June 2009
... to recall the existentialist maxim
that “experience precedes essence” when thinking of Black American
269Twentieth-Century Literature 55.2 Summer 2009 269
John C. Charles
identity, history, and culture, and to confront the fact that African Ameri-
cans have always “chosen...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (2): 249–258.
Published: 01 June 2005
... Anglo-American
poets, and Baraka, one of the foremost African American experimental
writers. In Mackey’s reading, this hinge aspect is what makes Lorca so vital
to “new American possibilities, to an American newness that is about mix,
the meeting of different cultural styles...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (2): 263–272.
Published: 01 June 2008
... self, Epstein
observes, arises later in pragmatist thought, for instance in the work of
John Dewey. One of the benefits of including Baraka in Epstein’s triad
of writers is the access thus gained to important new scholarship on the
connections between pragmatist thought and African American...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (1): 79–98.
Published: 01 March 2014
...” (131-32). But why,
on this view, should African Americans care about being invisible to and
separated from such a community of racists? Why not be content with
their separate existence, their separate culture? The answer, I think, reflects
the fact that this novel is less about race, or its...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 291–308.
Published: 01 December 2011
... postwar African-
American fiction performs a version of the cultural and historical labor
that critics continue to arrogate to realist modes of minority literature.
Moreover, in making her argument for the utility of postmodernism
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as a periodizing concept in regards to African-American...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 191–212.
Published: 01 June 2017
... of the landscape of failure, stretching from the Civil War into the twentieth century. Sterling Brown, in the persona of a white Southern woman, famously glossed Harlem nightlife as the “logical outcome of Appomattox” (1996, 169). The splendor of everyday African American culture in the urban North forces Brown’s...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 191–216.
Published: 01 September 2019
..., to finger its jagged grain, to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy, but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-comic lyricism. As a form, the blues is an autobiographical chronicle of a personal catastrophe expressed lyrically.” A distinctly African American form of cultural signifying...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 32–62.
Published: 01 March 2015
... viral across the Internet.) As not only an African American but also a woman, Larsen seems to have been that much more susceptible to the charge. 12 Robert Levine’s analysis of “cultural revisioning” in the work of American authors offers a helpful framework for thinking about this project...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (1): 75–100.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and blues, those metonyms for African American expressive culture are the pianist’s bailiwick and joy. Such oppositions are profoundly tested by the widow’s possessiveness and erotic disquiet over the young Black woman’s personal and professional choices, reminding us of Lorde’s definition of the erotic...