The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History

1. Modern, Modernist, Afro-Modernist: Melvin B. Tolson in the 1930s and 1940s
Kathy Lou Schultz

2. A Poem for the Futurafrique: Tolson’s Libretto for the Republic of Liberia

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3. “In the Modern Vein”: Tolson’s Harlem Gallery
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4. Bound By Law—Langston Hughes in/and the 1950s
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5. Toward An Afro-Modernist Future: Langston’s Hughes’s ASK YOUR MAMA: 12 MOODS FOR JAZZ
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6. Amiri Baraka’s Wise Why’s Y’s: Lineages of the Afro-Modernist Epic
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Avainsanat: Literature, North American Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Anthropology, Poetry and Poetics, Cultural Anthropology, Literary History