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Mark Whalan
Examining the legacy of the Great War on African American culture, this book considers the work of such canonical writers as WEB Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, and Alain…
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Covering key forms, media, locations, individuals, and communities, this book addresses both familiar topics and emergent scholarship. Seeing US modernism as fundamentally multiracial, both national and transnational, and steeped in…
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Considered deeply controversial because of his experimental writing style and complicated racial heritage, Jean Toomer was a major figure of the Harlem Renaissance and in the twentieth-century modernist movement. Toomer…
Offers the first extended comparison between American writers Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) and Jean Toomer (1894-1967), examining their engagement with the ideas of Young American writers and critics such as Van…
This book provides a fresh account of the major cultural and intellectual trends of the United States in the 1910s, a decade characterised by war, the flowering of modernism, the…
Mark Whalan (University of Oregon)
Rather than focusing on literary interpretations of trauma or memorialization as the most significant effects of World War One, this book shows an empowered federal state as a significant factor…
