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Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem: African American Literature and Culture, 1877-1919. Barbara McCaskill and Caroline Gebhard, eds. New York: New York University Press, 2006. xiv + 298 pages. $75.00 cloth; $22.00 paper.
With its treatment of the innovation, tradition, and activism of African Americans during a tumultuous and maligned era, Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem fills a void in cultural studies. References to the period as the Age of Lynching, the Jim Crow Era, or the Nadir depict monolithic views of the turn of the century that direct attention primarily to the political and social losses suffered in the black community. By contrast, Barbara McCaskill and Caroline Gebhard's book, highlighted by their use of the term "post-bellum, pre-Harlem," celebrates the diverse, intertextual, decade-spanning activities of African Americans after Reconstruction to the dawn of the Harlem Renaissance. Borrowing its title from a 1931 essay by Charles Chesnutt, this collection forges a sense...
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