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Published by University of Chicago Press, 1987
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- Title
- Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance
- Author
- Houston A. Baker Jr.
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication year
- 1987
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0226035247
- ISBN 13
- 9780226035246
Baker perceives the Harlem Renaissance as a crucial moment in a movement, predating the 1920's, when Afro-Americans embraced the task of self-determination and in so doing gave forth a distinctive form of expression that still echoes in a broad spectrum of 20th-century Afro-American arts.
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About the Author
Houston A. Baker is Distinguished University Professor and a professor of English at Vanderbilt University. He has been awarded fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities and has been a resident fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the National Humanities Center. He has served as president of the Modern Language Association and as editor of the journal American Literature.
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