"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

A brilliant and daring account of a culture war over the place of theater in American democracy in the 1930s, one that anticipates our current divide, by the ac

A study of Afrocentrism since the eighteenth-century, with particular attention to popular mythologies.

African American Literature in Transition, 1900–1910 offers a wide ranging, multi-disciplinary approach to early twentieth century African American literature