West of Harlem

Reveals that the West played a significant role in the lives and work of many of the artists who created the signal urban African American cultural movement of the twentieth century. Uncovering the forgotten histories of these major American literary figures, Lutenski gives us a deeper appreciation of that movement, and of the cultures it reflected and inspired. These recovered experiences and literatures paint a new picture of the American West, one that better accounts for the disparate African American populations that dotted its landscape and shaped the multiethnic literatures and cultures of the borderlands. urning the lens elsewhere, Lutenski also explores how Latina/o, Asian American, and Native American western writers understood and represented African Americans in the early twentieth-century borderlands. The result is a complex view of key figures of the Harlem Renaissance and the borderlands cultures that influenced their art in surprising and important ways. --From publisher description.

Year

2015

Language

English

Series

CultureAmerica

Publisher

University Press of Kansas

Editions

3

Pages

332

ISBN

9780700620869

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