Turning South Again: Re-Thinking Modernism/Re-Reading Booker T.

by Houston A. Baker Jr.

Book Overview

In Turning South Again the distinguished and award-winning essayist, poet, and scholar of African American literature Houston A. Baker, Jr. offers a revisionist account of the struggle for black modernism in the United States. With a take on the work of Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute surprisingly different from that in his earlier book Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, Baker combines historical considerations with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822326957
• ISBN13: 9780822326953
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 9.2"