{"key": "/works/OL20002855W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL7601336A"}}], "title": "West of Harlem", "subject_places": ["Southwestern States", "West (U.S.)"], "subjects": ["African Americans in literature", "In literature", "Race relations in literature", "African American authors", "History and criticism", "American literature", "American literature, african american authors, history and criticism", "American literature, history and criticism, 20th century", "United states, in literature", "Literature"], "subject_times": ["20th century"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [14396836], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Reveals that the West played a significant role in the lives and work of many of the artists who created the signal urban African American cultural movement of the twentieth century. Uncovering the forgotten histories of these major American literary figures, Lutenski gives us a deeper appreciation of that movement, and of the cultures it reflected and inspired. These recovered experiences and literatures paint a new picture of the American West, one that better accounts for the disparate African American populations that dotted its landscape and shaped the multiethnic literatures and cultures of the borderlands. urning the lens elsewhere, Lutenski also explores how Latina/o, Asian American, and Native American western writers understood and represented African Americans in the early twentieth-century borderlands. The result is a complex view of key figures of the Harlem Renaissance and the borderlands cultures that influenced their art in surprising and important ways. --From publisher description."}, "latest_revision": 4, "revision": 4, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-07-18T22:26:05.499374"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-07-12T11:32:37.864528"}}