A History of American Literature

Making It New: 1900–1945 487 dozen tales of the South, eventually collected in The Old South: “A Summer Tragedy” and Other Stori ...

488 Making It New: 1900–1945 slave masters and drivers vary from the brutal to the paternalistic, and those who sympathize with ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 489 of his people, to ‘Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful.’ ” This does not me ...

490 Making It New: 1900–1945 against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains and work, work, work” – or of blues – ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 491 rivers,” its narrator reveals, “I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of h ...

492 Making It New: 1900–1945 Editor of Negro Affairs for the Federal Writers’ Project from 1938 to 1940, and a researcher for th ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 493 annual Anthology of Magazine Verse, which began in 1913. In his criticism, he championed poets like ...

494 Making It New: 1900–1945 (1898–1966) and Robert Hayden (1913–1980). Tolson, whose first significant poem, “Dark Symphony,” w ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 495 From the Ashes,” “From Johannesburg, from Seoul, / Their struggles are all horizons, / Their deaths ...

496 Making It New: 1900–1945 “We real cool. We / Left school,” begins this jazzy litany of disaffection, recording all the habit ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 497 here, though, the reasons for the blues usually emerge as the familiar ones: loving “someone, when ...

498 Making It New: 1900–1945 1937 after three years but, undeterred, West then began New Challenge. A co-editor was Richard Wrig ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 499 cadences learned from her preacher father and the rhythms of the new American poetry encountered in ...

500 Making It New: 1900–1945 stories and articles, out of the emotional impact of imaginative construction of heroic or tragic d ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 501 myth of personal reinvention, the making of an identity. And it did not stop him either, from respo ...

502 Making It New: 1900–1945 several shades of meaning. Bigger is “a scared colored boy from Mississippi,” as his lawyer calls h ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 503 find a signature: which is to say, establish a sense of wholeness and presence. They were coextensi ...

504 Making It New: 1900–1945 more than a hundred “Buffalo Bill” novels, nine of them written in 1892 alone. This tidal wave of f ...

Making It New: 1900–1945 505 happen to him, as he experiences the rugged wildness of canyon country and has various adventures. ...

506 Making It New: 1900–1945 into fashion, and soon afterwards the mass audience tale of detection emerged. “Old Sleuth, the Det ...