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From DuBois to Van Vechten : the early new Negro literature, 1903-1926
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Analyzes the extent to which the Harlem Renaissance was a self-defined, indigenous literary and cultural awakening and the extent of black and white influences on it. Ikonne explores selected aspec...
Analyzes the extent to which the Harlem Renaissance was a self-defined, indigenous literary and cultural awakening and the extent of black and white influences on it. Ikonne explores selected aspects, ranging from the European rediscovery of African art at the turn of the century to the role of black literary magazines in promoting it.
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- Creator
- Chidi Ikonné
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- English
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- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1981
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- xiii, 218 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 031322496X, 9780313224966
- OCLC
- ocm06581137, ocm06581137
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-205) and index.
- Part I: Introduction: new views on old prejudices -- Africa and African art -- Vachel Lindsay -- Carl Sandburg -- Ridgley Torrence -- Eugene O'Neill -- Gertrude Stein -- Julia Peterkin -- Nigger heaven and the innocence of the new negro literature -- Part II: Symptoms of a phenomenon -- Charles Waddell Chesnutt -- James Edwin Campbell -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Daniel Webster Davis and other minor dialect poets -- James Weldon Johnson -- W E Burghardt Du Bois -- Claude McKay -- Jessie Redmon Fauset -- Part III: Black journals and the promotion of the new negro literature -- Opportunity -- The crisis -- The messenger -- Fire -- Conclusion -- Part IV: Affirmation of black self: black cracks between the white boards -- Jean Toomer -- Countée Cullen -- Part V: Affirmation of black self: the tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs -- Langston Hughes -- Eric Walrond -- Rudolph Fisher -- Zora Neale Hurston