In his introduction to the foundational 1925 text The New Negro, Alain Locke described the "Old Negro" as "a creature of moral debate and historical controversy," necessitating a metamorphosis into a literary art that embraced modernism and left sentimentalism behind. This was...
In his introduction to the foundational 1925 text The New Negro, Alain Locke described the Old Negro as a creature of moral debate and historical controversy, necessitating a metamorphosis into a literary art that embraced modernism and left sentimentalism behind. This was the...