"Spoofing the Modern is the first book devoted solely to studying the role satire played in the movement known as the "New Negro," or Harlem, Renaissance from 1919 to 1940. As the first era in which African American writers and artists enjoyed frequent access to and publicity from maj...

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Main Author:	Dickson-Carr, Darryl 1968- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Columbia The University of South Carolina Press [2015]
Subjects:	Schuyler, George Samuel > 1895-1977 Thurman, Wallace > 1902-1934 Nugent, Bruce > 1906-1987 Geschichte 1919-1940 American literature > African American authors > History and criticism Harlem Renaissance Satire, American > History and criticism African Americans in literature African Americans in popular culture Harlem renaissance Satire
Online Access:	DE-Y3 DE-824
Summary:	"Spoofing the Modern is the first book devoted solely to studying the role satire played in the movement known as the "New Negro," or Harlem, Renaissance from 1919 to 1940. As the first era in which African American writers and artists enjoyed frequent access to and publicity from major New York-based presses, the Harlem Renaissance helped the talents, concerns, and criticisms of African Americans to reach a wider audience in the 1920s and 1930s. These writers and artists joined a growing chorus of modernity that frequently resonated in the caustic timbre of biting satire and parody. The Harlem Renaissance was simultaneously the first major African American literary movement of the twentieth century and the first major blooming of satire by African Americans. Such authors as folklorist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, poet Langston Hughes, journalist George S.
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (x, 162 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:	9781611174939