CONTENTS // CONTRIBUTORS XI // JOSEF JARAB // Introduction: Modernity, Modernism, and // the American Ethnic Minority Artist 3 // JERROLD HIRSCH // T. S. Eliot, B. A. Botkin, and the Politics of // Cultural Representation: Folklore, Modernity, and Pluralism 16 // WERNER SOLLORS // Four Types of Writing under Modern Conditions; // or, Black Writers and “Populist Modernism” 42 // HEATHER HATHAWAY // Exploring “Something New”: The “Modernism” // of Claude McKay’s Harlem Shadows 54 // JAMES E. SMETHURST // The Strong Men Gittin’ Stronger: Sterling Brown’s // Southern Road and the Representation and Re-Creation // of the Southern Folk Voice 69 // DANIEL TERRIS // Waldo Frank, Jean Toomer, and the Critique // of Racial Voyeurism 92 // M. LYNN WEISS // “Among Negroes”: Gertrude Stein and African America 115 // JEFFREY MELNICK // A Black Man in Jewface 126 // ADAM ZACHARY NEWTON // Incognito Ergo Sum: “Ex” Marks the Spot // in Cahan, Johnson, Larsen, and Yezierska 140 // RACHEL RUBIN // A Jewish New World in Jacob Glatshteyn’s “Sheeny Mike” 184 // CONTENTS // ALESSANDRO PORTELLI // Beware of Signs; or, How to Tell the Living from the Dead: // Orality and Writing in the Work of Pedro Pietri 201 // FRITZ GYSIN // Centralizing the Marginal: Prolegomena to a Study of Boundaries in // Contemporary African American Fiction 209 // JOSEF JARAB // When All Met Together in One Room: Josef Jarab Interviews Allen // Ginsberg 240 // INDEX 260 // X