"The volume's first section demonstrates the subtle influence of the Great Depression's devastation on Black literary themes and methodologies by situating more

The volume explores 1930s African American writing to examine Black life, culture, and politics to document the ways Black artists and everyday people managed t

The volume explores 1930s African American writing to examine Black life, culture, and politics to document the ways Black artists and everyday people managed t

American Literature in Transition, 1930–1940 gathers together in a single volume preeminent critics and historians to offer an authoritative, analytic, and th

This book analyses historical, literary, and cultural shifts in African American literature from the 1920s-1930s.