The years between the collapse of Reconstruction and the end of World War I mark a pivotal moment in African American cultural production. Christened the ldquo;Post-Bellum-Pre-Harlemrdquo; era by the novelist Charles Chesnutt; these years look back to the antislavery movement and forward to the artistic flowering and racial self-consciousness of the Harlem Renaissance.Post-Bellum; Pre-Harlem offers fresh perspectives on the literary and cultural achievements of African American men and women during this critically neglected; though vitally important; period of our nations past. Using a wide range of disciplinary approaches; the sixteen scholars gathered here offer both a reappraisal and celebration of African American cultural production during these influential decades. Alongside discussions of political and artistic icons such as Booker T. Washington; W.E.B. Du Bois; Henry Ossawa Tanner; and James Weldon Johnson are essays revaluing figures such as the writers Paul and Alice Dunbar-Nelson; the New England painter Edward Mitchell Bannister; and Georgia-based activists Lucy Craft Laney and Emmanuel King Love.Contributors explore an array of forms from fine art to anti-lynching drama; from sermons to ragtime and blues; and from dialect pieces and early black musical theater to serious fiction.Contributors include: Frances Smith Foster; Carla L. Peterson; Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw; Audrey Thomas McCluskey; Barbara Ryan; Robert M. Dowling; Barbara A. Baker; Paula Bernat Bennett; Philip J. Kowalski; Nikki L. Brown; Koritha A. Mitchell; Margaret Crumpton Winter; Rhonda Reymond; and Andrew J. Scheiber.
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