African American Literature in Transition, 1920–1930: Volume 9 by Miriam Thaggert

African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930 presents original essays that map ideological, historical, and cultural shifts in the 1920s. Complicating the familiar reading of the 1920s as a decade that began with a spectacular boom and ended with disillusionment and bust, the collection explores the range and diversity of Black cultural production. Emphasizing a generative contrast between the ephemeral qualities of periodicals, clothes, and décor and the relative fixity of canonical texts, this volume captures in its dynamics a cultural movement that was fluid and expansive. Chapters by leading scholars are grouped into four 'Habitus, Sound, Fashion'; ' Chronicles of Harlem and Beyond'; 'Uplift Religion, Protest, and Education,' and 'Serial Magazines and Periodical Culture.'