Harlem Glory: A Fragment of Aframerican Life
Written in the late 1940s but unpublished till now, this superb portrayal of Black life during the Great Depression and the New Deal is virtually a sequel to the classic Home to Harlem. Mckay's vivid, warm evocations of the omnipresent numbers racket, all-night jazz parties and the whole exuberant and cacophonous clash of social movements and ideologies - Black nationalism and industrial unionism as well as incipient Muslim and other heterodox religious formations - provide the context for a fast-paced narrative of love, work, play and revolt in Black America during one of the most stirring periods in US history. Astutely sensitive to the ext…
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Weitere Autoren: Cowl, Carl (Ausw.)
- ISBN: 978-0-88286-163-0
- EAN: 9780882861630
- Produktnummer: 2531315
- Verlag: Charles Kerr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 112 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B13.9 cm x D1.2 cm 168 g
- Gewicht: 168
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