List of illustrations page vii // List of contributors ix // Chronology xii // Introduction i // WALTER KALAIDJIAN // 1 Nationalism and the modern American canon 12 // MARK MORRISSON // Part I Genre // 2 Modern American fiction 39 // RITA BARNARD // 3 Modern American poetry 68 // CARY NELSON // 4 Modern American drama 102 // STEPHEN WATT // Part II Culture // 5 American modernism and the New Negro Renaissance 129 // MARK A. SANDERS // 6 Jazz and American modernism 157 // JED RASULA // 7 Visual culture 177 // MICHAEL NORTH // 8 The avant-garde phase of American modernism 195 MARJORIE PERLOFF // Part III Society // 9 Gender and sexuality 221 // JANET LYON // 10 Regionalism in American modernism 242 // JOHN N. DUVALL // 11 Social representations within American modernism 261 // PAULA RABINOWITZ // 12 Modern American literary criticism 284 // DOUGLAS MAO // Further reading 308 // Index 320