West Of Harlem: African American Writers And The Borderlands (Cultureamerica)

West of Harlem relocates the "New Negro" to the new landscape of the borderlands West, examining the work of writers like Arna Bontemps, Anita Scott Coleman, Langston Hughes, Wallace Thurman, and Jean Toomer and shows that debates over cultural nationalism and uplift long considered central to New Negro politics and culture were even more complicated, and that fantasies of the West as both a deracinated frontier and a hybrid borderlands are undermined by black western experience.

• | Author: Emily Lutenski
• | Publisher: University Press Of Kansas
• | Publication Date: Apr 21, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 344 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0700635602
• | ISBN-13: 9780700635603