"We Seek What We Find - We See What We Look For": Looking for Literary Production in Washington, D.C. 1921-1928

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dc.contributor.advisorStruna, Nancyen_US
dc.contributor.authorBowden, Ebony Vanessaen_US
dc.contributor.departmentAmerican Studiesen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2007-02-01T20:20:33Z
dc.date.available2007-02-01T20:20:33Z
dc.date.issued2006-08-30en_US
dc.description.abstractThough acknowledged as the intellectual and cultural hub of African American enlightenment, many artists' experiences attest that the reputation of Harlem as an artistic haven has in many ways, been overestimated. The promotion of Harlem's dominant characteristics has led many historians to overlook other culturally productive locations like Washington, D.C., which was also a major center for literary and artistic development during the twenties. My project explores Georgia Douglass Johnson as D.C.'s agent of cultural and literary production through her hostess-ship of Saturday-night literary salons held in her 1461 S. Street Northwest D.C home from 1921-1928. The discussion of this literary salon is original because it includes theories of cultural production and cultural studies submerged within a traditional literary context. Allowing room to cross interdisciplinary lines, this paper involves an investigation of members of the salons as well as the internal and external dynamics of the literary community itself.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/4069
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAmerican Studiesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledLiterature, Americanen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledLiterature, Africanen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledBlack literatureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledharlem renaissance;cultural production;washington;African American literature;New Negro;Georgia Douglas Johnsonen_US
dc.title"We Seek What We Find - We See What We Look For": Looking for Literary Production in Washington, D.C. 1921-1928en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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