{"product_id":"west-of-harlem-african-american-writers-and-the-borderlands-9780700635603","title":"West of Harlem  African American Writers and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReveals the American West played a significant role in the lives and work of many of the artists who created the signal urban African American cultural movement of the twentieth century. Uncovering the forgotten histories of these major American literary figures, the book gives us a deeper appreciation of that movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book should be considered by anyone who wishes to attain a working understanding of the broader connections between the Harlem Renaissance and the African American experience in the West.\" - \u003ci\u003eNew Mexico Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A high quality of archival recovery and historical contextualization lies at the heart of \u003ci\u003eWest of Harlem\u003c\/i\u003e. Lutenski ends with a coda reminding scholars that the borderlands is a multiethnic place that holds Americans, Native Americans, Anglo-Americans, Asian Americans, and also African Americans. \u003ci\u003eWest of Harlem\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the productive impact of the grating between the borderlands West and African American literary production.\" - \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eWest of Harlem\u003c\/i\u003e, Emily Lutenski brings heretofore marginalized or erased black modernist experiences to the center. [She] joins the growing ranks of scholars who would disrupt, challenge, and outright refuse monolithic racial and cultural narratives.\" - \u003ci\u003eAmerican Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In addition to introducing a new geographic rubric that invigorates African American literary studies and is, in turn, animated by a range of scholarly traditions—most notably, modernism, feminism, and Chicana and Chicano studies—Lutenski’s study reveals the unacknowledged  provincialism of some of the foundational studies on race and region within African American literary studies.\" - \u003ci\u003eWestern Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Expertly written and researched, enjoyable to read, relevant across specializations and disciplines.\" - \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A fresh way of seeing and reading these [Harlem Renaissance] writers as they define their identities in the spacious, diverse borderlands.\" - \u003ci\u003eKansas History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Broad in scope, original, and fascinating in its content.\" - \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Emily Lutenski explores an American West which is more racially complex and culturally vibrant than previous scholarship has led us to believe. Her book is an important contribution to western American literature and African American studies.\" - Blake Allmendinger, author of  \u003ci\u003eImagining the African American West\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From Anita Scott Coleman’s New Mexican homesteads to Arna Bontemps’s imagined Los Angeles to Langston Hughes’s Mexican wanderings, Lutenski shows us how we must go West to go to Harlem. Accessible to a wide range of readers and creative in its framing and approach to sources, it’s a terrific book.\" - Flannery Burke, author of \u003ci\u003eFrom Greenwich Village to Taos: Primitivism and Place at Mabel Dodge Luhan’s\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: One Who Stayed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Home on the Range: Domesticity and a Black Woman’s West\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Those Who Went Away\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. the Two LAs: Los Angeles, Louisiana, and Geographies of Race\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Revolt from the Provinces: Black Politics of Respectability and Black Sexual Politics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Technicolor Places:Race and Revolution in Transnational America\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: One Who Arrived\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Mapping the New American Race: From New York to New Mexico—and Beyond\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoda\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Borderlands of Blackness: The Formation of a Multiethnic American Imagination\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037275095383,"sku":"9780700635603","price":22.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780700635603.jpg?v=1750935109","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/west-of-harlem-african-american-writers-and-the-borderlands-9780700635603","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}