Conjuring the folk : forms of modernity in African America / David G. Nicholls.
"In a series of revisionary readings, Nicholls studies how the folk is shaped by the ideology of form. He examines the presence of a spectral folk in Toomer's modernist pastiche, Cane, and explores how Hurston presents folklore as a contemporary language of resistance in her ethnography, M...
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2000]
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Table of Contents:
- Conjuring the folk
- Modernism and the spectral folk: Jean Toomer's Cane
- Folklore and migrant labor: Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and men
- The folk as alternative modernity: Claude McKay's Banana bottom
- Rural modernity, migration, and the gender of autonomy: the novels of George Wylie Henderson
- The folk, the race, and class consciousness: Richard Wright's 12 million Black voices
- Conclusion: local histories and world historical narrative.