African American Literature in Transition, 1900–1910

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Acknowledgements
List of images
Introduction Shirley Moody-Turner
Part I. Transition in African American Authorship, Publishing and the Visual Arts:
1. Black bibliographers and the category of negro authorship Laura E. Helton
2. Transitions in African American book publishing and print culture Alisha Knight
3. Re-evaluating African American art before the Harlem renaissance Rhonda Reymond
Part II. New Negro Aesthetic and Transitions in Genre and Form:
4. African American novels and new slavery in the new south M. Giulia Fabi
5. Anti-lynching poetry and the poetics of protest Laura Vrana
6. The politics of performance, character, and literary genre in transition April Logan
Part III. Modernist Masculinities and Transitions in Black Leadership:
7. Charting the tensions between optimism and despair at mid-decade Hanna Wallinger
8. W. E. B. Du Bois and transitions in black intellectual thought Keith Byerman
9. Celebrity and black masculinity at the turn into the twentieth century Jeffrey Leak
Part IV. Remapping the Turn of the Twentieth Century:
10. Can the subaltern speak through Alain Locke and Paul Laurence Dunbar? Jeffrey Stewart
11. Race and manhood in African American representations of the frontier James Leiker
12. Narratives of black and Chinese citizenship after Plessy v. Ferguson Edlie Wong
13. Black transpacific culture and the migratory imagination Vince Schleitwiler.

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