Table of Contents:
  • Modernity, Modernism, and the American ethnic minority artist / Josef Jařab
  • T.S. Eliot, B.A. Botkin, and the politics of cultural representation: folklore, modernity, and pluralism / Jerrold Hirsch
  • Four types of writing under modern conditions; or, black writers and "populist modernism" / Werner Sollors
  • Exploring "something new": The "modernism" of Claude McKay's Harlem shadows / heather Hathaway
  • The strong men gittin' stronger: Sterling Brown's Southern road and the representation and re-creation of the southern folk voice / James E. Smethurst
  • Waldo Frank, Jean Toomer, and the critique of racial voyeurism / Daniel Terris
  • "Among negroes": Gertrude Stein and African America / M. Lynn Weiss
  • A black man in Jewface / Jeffrey Melnick
  • Incognito ergo sum: "Ex" marks the spot in Cahan, Johnson, Larsen, and Yezierska / Adam Zachary Newton
  • A Jewish new world in Jacob Glatshteyn's "Sheeny Mike"
  • Beware of signs; or, how to tell the living from the dead: orality and writing in the work of Pedro Pietri / Alessandro Portelli
  • Centralizing the marginal: prolegomena to a study of boundaries in contemporary African American fiction / Fritz Gysin
  • When all met together in one room: Josef Jařab interviews Allen Ginsberg / Josef Jařab.