Conjuring the Folk : Forms of Modernity in African America

Conjuring the Folk addresses the dynamic relation between metropolitan artistic culture and its popular referents during the Harlem Renaissance period. From Jean Toomer's conclusion that "the Negro of the folk-song has all but passed away" to Zora Neale Hurston's discovery of "a rich field for folk-lore" in a Florida lumber camp, Harlem Renaissance writers made competing claims about the vitality of the African-American "folk." These competing claims, David Nicholls explains, form the basis of a discordant conversation on the question of modernity in African America.

Conjuring the Folk : Forms of Modernity in African America,David G. Nicholls,University of Michigan Press,0472110349,20th Century American Literature,20th century,African American authors,American - African American & Black,American - General,American literature,Blacks In Literature,General,History,History and criticism,Literary Criticism,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature and folklore,Popular Culture - General,United States,Social Science / Popular Culture

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