Conjuring the Folk: Forms of Modernity in African America

by David G. Nicholls

Conjuring the Folk addresses the dynamic relation between metropolitan artistic culture and its popular referents during the Harlem Renaissance period. From Jean Toomer's conclusion that "the Negro of the folk-song has all but passed away" to Zora Neale Hurston's discovery of "a rich field for folk-lore" in a Florida lumber camp, Harlem Renaissance writers made competing claims about the vitality of the African-American "folk." These competing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472110349
• ISBN13: 9780472110346
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"