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Author:

Farebrother, Rachel.

Title:

The collage aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance / Rachel Farebrother.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

x, 219 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
African American aesthetics.
Literature and anthropology--United States--History--20th century.
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
African Americans in literature.
Harlem Renaissance

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Boasian anthropology and the Harlem Renaissance -- "[F]lung out in a jagged, uneven but progressive pattern": "culture-citizenship" in The new negro -- "[A]dventuring through the pieces of a still unorganized mosaic": Jean Toomer's collage aesthetic in Cane -- "Think[ing] in hieroglyphics": Zora Neale Hurston's cross-cultural aesthetic -- Reading Zora Neale Hurston's textual synthesis in Jonah's gourd vine and Moses, man of the mountain.

ISBN:

0754661989 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780754661986 (hardback : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)318672978

LCCN:

2009015786

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)