The African American Roots of Modernism: From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix introduction | New Forms and Captive Knights in the Age of Jim Crow and Mechanical Reproduction 1 one | Dueling Banjos: African American Dualism and Strategies for Black Representation at the Turn of the Century 27 two | Remembering “Those Noble Sons of Ham”: Poetry, Soldiers, and Citizens at the End of Reconstruction 66 three | The Black City: The Early Jim Crow Migration Narrative and the New Territory of Race 96 four | Somebody Else’s Civilization: African American Writers, Bohemia, and the New Poetry 123 five | A Familiar and Warm Relationship: Race, Sexual Freedom, and U.S. Literary Modernism 155 conclusion | “Our Beautiful White . . .” 188 Notes 217 Bibliography 231 Index 247 This page intentionally left blank ...