ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. INTRODUCTION: AMERICA AND THE PHANTOM MODERN 1
5. I BODY
6. 1. MACHINE DREAMS 19
7. 2. JOSEPHINE BAKER’S HOTHOUSE 29
8. 3. TRESPASSING THE COLORLINE: AGGRESSIVE MOBILITY AND SEXUAL TRANGRESSION IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW NEGRO MODERNITY 48
9. 4. BODIES, VOICES, WORDS: MODERN DRAMA AND THE PROBLEM OF THE LITERARY 68
10. II MEMORY
11. 5. NO ONE IS BURIED IN HOOVER DAM 81
12. 6. THE EDGE OF MODERNISM: GENOCIDE AND THE POETICS OF TRAUMATIC MEMORY 107
13. 7. WRITING, SOCIAL SCIENCE, AND ETHNICITY IN GERTRUDE STEIN AND CERTAIN OTHERS 133
14. 8. JEAN TOOMER’S CANE, MODERNIZATION, AND THE SPECTRAL FOLK 151
15. 9. GRAFTS, TRANSPLANTS, TRANSLATION: THE AMERICANIZING OF YOUNGHILL KANG 171
16. III CAPITAL
17. 10. GREAT LADY PAINTERS, INC.: ICONS OF FEMINISM, MODERNISM, AND THE NATION 191
18. 11. KITCHEN MECHANICS AND PARLOR NATIONALISTS: ANDY RAZAF, BLACK BOLSHEVISM, AND HARLEM’S RENAISSANCE 219
19. 12. RENO-VATING GENDER: PLACE, PRODUCTION, AND THE RENO DIVORCE FACTORY 238
20. 13. POLITICS AND LABOR IN POETRY OF THE FIN DE SIÈCLE AND BEYOND: FRAGMENTS OF AN UNWRITABLE HISTORY 268
21. CONTRIBUTORS 289
22. INDEX 293