African American Literature in Transition - Series page

pp ii-ii

African American Literature in Transition, 1900–1910 - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

Figures

pp vii-vii

Contributors

pp viii-viii

Preface

pp ix-x

Acknowledgments

pp xi-xi

Chronology, 1900–1910

pp xii-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-20

Part I - Transitions in African American Authorship, Publishing, and the Visual Arts

pp 21-96

Chapter 1 - Black Bibliographers and the Category of Negro Authorship

pp 23-47

Chapter 2 - Transitions in African American Book Publishing and Print Culture

pp 48-72

Chapter 3 - Reevaluating African American Art before the Harlem Renaissance

pp 73-96

Part II - New Negro Aesthetics and Transitions in Genre and Form

pp 97-172

Chapter 4 - African American Novels and the New Slavery in the New South

pp 99-123

Chapter 5 - Anti-Lynching Poetry and the Poetics of Protest

pp 124-145

Chapter 6 - The Politics of Performance, Character, and Literary Genre in Transition

pp 146-172

Part III - Modernist Masculinities and Transitions in Black Leadership

pp 173-246

Chapter 7 - Charting the Tensions between Optimism and Despair at Mid-Decade

pp 175-198

Chapter 8 - W. E. B. Du Bois and Transitions in Black Intellectual Thought

pp 199-221

Chapter 9 - Celebrity and Transitions in Black Masculinity at the Turn of the Century

pp 222-246

Part IV - Remapping the Turn of the Twentieth Century

pp 247-348

Chapter 10 - Can the Black Subaltern Speak?

pp 249-272

Chapter 11 - Race and Manhood in African American Representations of the Frontier

pp 273-298

Chapter 12 - Narratives of Black and Chinese Citizenship after Plessy v. Ferguson

pp 299-321

Chapter 13 - Black Transpacific Culture and the Migratory Imagination

pp 322-348

Index

pp 349-364