Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-169) and index.
Contents
Conjuring the folk -- Modernism and the spectral folk : Jean Toomer's Cane -- Folklore and migrant labor : Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and men -- The folk as alternative modernity : Claude McKay's Banana bottom -- Rural modernity, migration, and the gender of autonomy : the novels of George Wylie Henderson -- The folk, the race, and class consciousness : Richard Wright's 12 million Black voices -- Conclusion : local histories and world historical narrative.
