The Walls of Jerichoにおけるアフロアメリカモダニズム

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W. E. B. DuBois famously observed in The Souls of Black Folk that "the problem of the Twentieth century is the problem of the color line. "Almost exactly one hundred years later, the problem of the color line remains a significant one in the interoretation of American literature. The 1990s witnessed a number of revisionist studies of the Harlem Renaissance but it is clear that there is still a great deal of work to be done in charting new approaches to the study of modernism and the contexts in which African American literary texts have been produced, read, and studied. This essay is a study of Rudolph Fisher's The Walls of Jericho (1928) in the context of American modernism. It argues that the erasure of the full dimensions of our early twentieth century African American literary traditions impoverishes all readers, and oreserves grammars of ignorance, which obscure our view of a common culture, which exists before and beyond the constructs of separate white and black spheres.
2003-03-20