Schlabach, Elizabeth Schroeder.

Along the streets of Bronzeville : black Chicago's literary landscape / Elizabeth Schroeder Schlabach. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (xxii, 167 pages). - The new Black studies series .

Includes bibliographies and index.

From black belt to Bronzeville -- The South Side community art center and South Side writers group -- Policy, creativity, and Bronzeville's dreams -- Two Bronzeville autobiographies -- Kitchenettes.

This book examines the flowering of African American creativity, activism, and scholarship in the South Side Chicago district known as Bronzeville during the period between the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s.



9780252095108

2021701838


American literature--History and criticism.--Illinois--Chicago
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
African Americans--Intellectual life.--Illinois--Chicago


Electronic Books.

PS285 / .A466 2013