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Author:

Lutenski, Emily. author.

Title:

West of Harlem : African American writers and the borderlands / Emily Lutenski.

Publisher:

University Press of Kansas,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xi, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
African Americans in literature
Race relations in literature.
West (U.S.)--In literature.
Southwestern States--In literature.
Littérature américaine--Histoire et critique.--Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine--20e siècle--Histoire et critique.
Literatur.
Schwarze.
Harlem renaissance.
USA--Weststaaten.
African Americans in literature.
American literature.
American literature--African American authors.
Literature.
Race relations in literature.
United States--Southwestern States.
United States, West.
1900 - 1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-316) and index.

Contents:

Ntroduction: going to the territory -- One who stayed. Home on the range: domesticity and a black woman's West -- Those who went away. The two LAs: Los Angeles, Louisiana, and geographies of race -- Revolt from the provinces: black politics of respectability and black sexual politics -- Technicolor places: race and revolution in transnational America -- One who arrived. Mapping the new American race: from New York to New Mexico-and beyond -- Coda. The borderlands of blackness: the formation of a multiethnic American imagination.

Series:

CultureAmerica

ISBN:

0700620869 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780700620869 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)895730814

LCCN:

2015004304

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)