Race and the Modern Artist

by Jeffrey Melnick; Heather Hathaway; Josef Jarab

• ISBN13: 9780195184945
• ISBN10: 0195184947
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-01-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Academic US

Summary

Definitions of modernism have been debated throughout the twentieth century. But both during the height of the modernist era and since, little to no consideration has been given to the work of minority writers as part of this movement. Considering works by writers ranging from B.A. Botkin, T.S. Eliot, Waldo Frank, and Jean Toomer to Pedro Pietri and Allen Ginsberg, these essays examine the disputed relationships between modernity, modernism, and American cultural diversity. In so doing, the collection as a whole adds an important new dimension to our understanding of twentieth-centuryliterature.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Contributors	p. xi
Race and the Modern Artist	p. 2
Introduction Modernity, Modernism, and the American Ethnic Minority Artist	p. 3
Notes	p. 13
T. S. Eliot, B. A. Botkin, and the Politics of Cultural Representation: Folklore, Modernity, and Pluralism	p. 16
Notes	p. 37
Four Types of Writing Under Modern Conditions; Or, Black Writers and "populist Modernism"	p. 42
Notes	p. 51
Exploring "something New": The "modernism" of Claude Mckay's Harlem Shadows	p. 54
Notes	p. 65
The Strong Men Gittin' Stronger: Sterling Brown's Southern Road and the Representation and Re-Creation of the Southern Folk Voice	p. 69
Notes	p. 87
Waldo Frank, Jean Toomer, and the Critique of Racial Voyeurism	p. 92
Notes	p. 112
Among Negroes: Gertrude Stein and African America	p. 115
Notes	p. 123
A Black Man in Jewface	p. 126
Notes	p. 138
Incognito Ergo Sum: Ex Marks the Spot in Cahan, Johnson, Larsen, and Yezierska	p. 140
Notes	p. 172
A Jewish New World in Jacob Glatshteyn's "sheeny Mike"	p. 184
Notes	p. 198
Beware of Signs; Or, How to Tell the Living from the Dead: Orality and Writing in the Work of Pedro Pietri	p. 201
Notes	p. 208
Centralizing the Marginal: Prolegomena to a Study of Boundaries in Contemporary African American Fiction	p. 209
Notes	p. 230
When All Met Together in One Room: Josef Jařab Interviews Allen Ginsberg	p. 240
Index	p. 260
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