Spirits of Defiance: National Prohibition and Jazz Age Literature, 1920-1933

1920s and early African American American literature Babbitt behavior Blacker the Berry bootleggers booze bottle buffet flat cabarets characters club cocktail parties Cordelia culture of Prohibition customers dance drinkers drinking Eighteenth Amendment Emma Lou enforcement entertainment Faulkner fiction flapper friends Gatsby Gatsby's girl good-time flats Granpap guests Harlem cabarets Harlem Renaissance Harlem residents Harriett historian Home to Harlem house parties illegal liquor illicit Izzy and Moe Jake Jazz Age Langston Lewis liquor laws literary lives McKay moonshiners moral Muttsy narrator National Prohibition Negro neighborhood Nigger Heaven night novel offer Patmore patrons political popular portrayed Prohibition agents Prohibition culture Prohibition laws Prohibition-era prostitute readers rent parties revealing roadhouses Rudolph Fisher rural saloons scene Scott Fitzgerald Sinclair social speakeasies tion urban Vechten Volstead Act W. E. B. Du Bois Wallace Thurman wealthy Wet Parade whiskey women working-class writers York young youth culture