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The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History

Part of the Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137082428

ISBN: 978-1-349-34180-1

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 4, 2015

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

Schultz, Kathy Lou

Pages: 1 –35

[Critical reengagement with Melvin B. Tolson’s writing from the 1930s and 1940s makes clear that his later Afro-Modernist epics, Libretto for the Republic of Liberia (1953) and Harlem Gallery: Book I, The Curator (1965), are not merely anomalies out of sync with the developments of modernism, nor...
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A Poem for the Futurafrique: Tolson’s Libretto for the Republic of Liberia

Schultz, Kathy Lou

Pages: 37 –63

[In Libretto for the Republic of Liberia (1953) Melvin B. Tolson writes into the voids in official histories, highlighting the fact that the construction of the archive—of memory—must constantly be tended. Writing in the mid-twentieth century, Tolson seeks to preserve the histories of people of...
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“In the Modern Vein”: Tolson’s Harlem Gallery

Schultz, Kathy Lou

Pages: 65 –89

[In an interview conducted the year before his death, Tolson gives the following reply to the question “I understand that you have lived a varied, and, in many instances, a hazardous life?” Tennyson’s protagonist says in Ulysses, “Much have I seen and known…” And, again, “I am part of all that I...
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Bound By Law—Langston Hughes in/and the 1950s

Schultz, Kathy Lou

Pages: 91 –118

[In “Prelude to Our Age: A Negro History Poem” (1951), Langston Hughes writes and unwrites history, reflecting the mobility and stasis, the starts and stops, on the path toward achievement of modern selfhood in a culture determined to infinitely defer African Americans’ freedoms. First published...
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Toward An Afro-Modernist Future: Langston’s Hughes’s ASK YOUR MAMA: 12 MOODS FOR JAZZ

Schultz, Kathy Lou

Pages: 119 –149

[In his jazz poems of the 1960s, Langston Hughes’s use of the page as a field allows for visual and verbal play, noise rather than silence, bringing the movement of performativity into and onto the former immobility of the black-and-white page. In ASK YOUR MAMA: 12 MOODS FOR JAZZ (1961), the...
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Amiri Baraka’s Wise Why’s Y’s: Lineages of the Afro-Modernist Epic

Schultz, Kathy Lou

Pages: 151 –188

[Conducting an interview with Amiri Baraka published in African American Review in 2003, Kalamu ya Salaam posits: “For all artists there are moments of clarity that are so absolute everybody can see them… For example, Kind of Blue will always be one of Miles’s more definitive statements”...

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