Along the Streets of Bronzeville: Black Chicago's Literary Landscape (New Black Studies Series) - Softcover

Schlabach, Elizabeth Schroeder

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252082621 ISBN 13: 9780252082627

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2017

Synopsis

Along the Streets of Bronzeville examines the flowering of African American creativity, activism, and scholarship in the South Side Chicago district known as Bronzeville during the period between the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Poverty stricken, segregated, and bursting at the seams with migrants, Bronzeville was the community that provided inspiration, training, and work for an entire generation of diversely talented African American authors and artists who came of age during the years between the two world wars. In this significant recovery project, Elizabeth Schroeder Schlabach investigates the institutions and streetscapes of Black Chicago that fueled an entire literary and artistic movement. She argues that African American authors and artists--such as Gwendolyn Brooks, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, painter Archibald Motley, and many others--viewed and presented black reality from a specific geographic vantage point: the view along the streets of Bronzeville. Schlabach explores how the particular rhythms and scenes of daily life in Bronzeville locations, such as the State Street "Stroll" district or the bustling intersection of 47th Street and South Parkway, figured into the creative works and experiences of the artists and writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance.

About this title

Book Description:

A street-level panorama of the Black Chicago Renaissance

About the Author:

Elizabeth Schroeder Schlabach is an associate professor of history and African and African American studies at Earlham College.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0252082621
• ISBN 13: 9780252082627
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192