Edward M. Pavlic. Crossroads Modernism: Descent and Emergence in African-American Literary Culture.(Book review)

African American Review | June 22, 2008| | Copyright

Edward M. Pavlic. Crossroads Modernism: Descent and Emergence in African-American Literary Culture. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2002. 314 pp. $22.50.

Ed Pavlid's study of African American modernism draws upon a wide range of literary criticism, literary and cultural theory, philosophy, music and religious studies to map the fundamental understandings of self and community expressed in black modernist writing in twentieth-century American literature. Providing extended readings of Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Robert Hayden and Zora Neale Hurston, Crossroads ...

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