African American Modernism and State Surveillance

  • William J. Maxwell

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    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationA Companion to African American Literature
    PublisherWiley Blackwell
    Pages254-268
    Number of pages15
    ISBN (Print)9781405188623
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Mar 30 2010

    Keywords

    • African American Modernism and state surveillance
    • Birth of the Harlem Renaissance -1919
    • Capital Reader -pre-reads any text produced for a capitalist marketplace
    • FBI -remaining most dedicated and powerful forgotten critic of twentieth -century African American writing
    • Knowledge of and opposition to FBI ghostreading -informing surprisingly deep vein of Afro-Modernist writing
    • The growth of Hoover's national police agency -concurrent and interconnected with the growth of Afro -Modernist writing

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