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Propaganda and Aesthetics : The Literary title: Politics of African-American Magazines in the Twentieth Century Johnson, Abby Arthur.; Johnson, Ronald author: Maberry. publisher: University of Massachusetts Press isbn10 | asin: 0870234021 print isbn13: 9780870234026 ebook isbn13: 9780585212593 language: English American literature--African American authors--History and criticism, Politics and literature--United States--History--20th subject century, Press and propaganda--United States--History--20th century, American literature--20th century--History and criticism, Lite publication date: 1991 lcc: PS153.N5J6 1991eb ddc: 810.9/896073 American literature--African American authors--History and criticism, Politics and literature--United States--History--20th subject: century, Press and propaganda--United States--History--20th century, American literature--20th century--History and criticism, Lite Page iii Propaganda and Aesthetics The Literary Politics of African-American Magazines in the Twentieth Century Abby Arthur Johnson & Ronald Maberry Johnson The University of Massachusetts Press Amherst Page iv Copyright © 1979 by The University of Massachusetts Press Introduction to the Paperback Edition © 1991 by The University of Massachusetts Press. All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Designed by Mary Mendell Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 90-19935 ISBN 0-87023-402-1 Grateful acknowledgment is extended to the following for permission to reprint copyrighted material: North Dakota Quarterly, for material from Abby Arthur Johnson and Ronald Maberry Johnson, "Reform and Reaction: Black Literary Magazines in the 1930s," in North Dakota Quarterly 46 (Winter 1978), 518. Journal of American Studies, for material from Abby Arthur Johnson and Ronald Maberry Johnson, "Forgotten Pages: Black Literary Magazines of the 1920s," in Journal of American Studies 8 (December 1974), 36382. The Sterling Lord Agency, Inc., for material from LeRoi Jones, "Black Art,'' in Black Magic Poetry, published by Bobs-Merill, copyright © by LeRoi Jones. Reprinted by permission of The Sterling Lord Agency, Inc. The Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, Inc., for material from Abby Arthur Johnson and Ronald Maberry Johnson, "Away from Accommodation: Radical Editors and Protest Journalism, 19001910," in Journal of Negro History 62, no. 4 (1977). Grateful acknowledgment for permission to publish is also extended to: Dorothy West, for quotations from her correspondence; Mrs. James Weldon Johnson, for the letters exchanged between Claude McKay, Dorothy West, and James Weldon Johnson; The James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection, for the letters of James Weldon Johnson; The Estate of Claude McKay, for the correspondence of Claude McKay; Hope McKay Virtue, for her kind permission to publish previously unpublished correspondence; Mrs. Frederick Douglass III, for the letters of Booker T. Washington. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Johnson, Abby Arthur. Johnson, Abby Arthur. Propaganda and aesthetics : the literary politics of African- American magazines in the twentieth century / Abby Arthur Johnson & Ronald Mabery Johnson. Pbk. ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87023-402-1 1. American literatureAfro-American authorsHistory and criticism. 2. Politics and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th century. 3. Press and PropagandaUnited StatesHistory20th century. 4. American and literature20th centuryHistory and criticism. 5. Literature publishingPolitical aspectsUnited States. 6. Afro-AmericansPolitics and government. 7. Afro- American periodicalsHistory. 8. Afro-AmericansAesthetics. I. Johnson, Ronald Maberry. II. Title. PS153.N5J6 1991 810.9'896073dc20 90-19935 CIP Page v Contents Introduction to the Paperback Edition vii Preface xvii Chapter One. Away from Accommodation Colored American Magazine, Voice of the Negro, and Horizon, 19001910 1 Chapter Two. Toward the Renaissance Crisis, Opportunity, and Messenger, 19101928 31 Chapter Three. Black Renaissance Little Magazines and Special Issues, 19161930 65 Chapter Four. Renaissance to Reformation House Organs, Annual Reviews, and Little Magazines, 19301940 97 Chapter Five. Aesthetics of Integration Negro Quarterly, Negro Story, Phylon, and Harlem Quarterly, 19401960 125 Chapter Six. Black Aesthetic Revolutionary Little Magazines, 19601976 161 Epilogue: More than Mere Magazines 201 Notes 207 Selected Bibliography 233 Index 239 Page vi To our parents Page vii Introduction to the Paperback Edition The first edition of Propaganda and Aesthetics left off with the ebbing of the black arts movement of the 1960s and early 1970s. Poets and essayists signaled the change in African-American* magazines, which continued to serve as a unique platform for exploring the political and aesthetic dimensions of black literature. In "Why I Changed My Ideology," an essay published in the July 1975 issue of Black World, Amiri Baraka claimed it "fantasy to think that we can struggle for our own liberation and be completely oblivious to all the other struggling and oppressed people in the land." Nathan Hare mused over the cultural shift in "Division and Confusion: What Happened to the Black Movement,'' an essay carried in the January 1976 number of Black World. A new generation of literary critics came to the fore in the late 1970s. Rejecting extraliterary approaches to black literature, they stressed the importance of textual analysis and the use of a plurality of literary theories. At the same time, both older and newer critics began to articulate a number of other methods for studying African-American literature. This introduction, which brings our discussion up to the present, traces the debate over the function and form of African- American literature in black literary magazines of the late 1970s and the 1980s. * Since Propaganda and Aesthetics first appeared, African-American has increasingly replaced Afro-American as a primary term identifying the black population in the United States. We have elected to use this term in our introduction, as well as in the subtitle of this edition. The original text, which remains unchanged, retains the use of Afro-American.
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