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Harlem renaissance re-examined
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"While the height of the Harlem Renaissance occurred more than seventy years ago, in many ways it still has an effect on our culture. "The Harlem Renaissance Re-examined" brings to light long-negle...
"While the height of the Harlem Renaissance occurred more than seventy years ago, in many ways it still has an effect on our culture. "The Harlem Renaissance Re-examined" brings to light long-neglected writers and artists from that era for a second look at the roles that they played in developing the arts in America, and for a re-evaluation of their talents."--Google Books viewed Jan. 12, 2022.
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- Creator
- edited by Victor A. Kramer and Robert A. Russ
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
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- Rev. and expanded ed
- Troy, N.Y. : Whitston Pub., ©1997
- ©1997
- Physical Details
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- 416 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0878754881, 9780878754885
- OCLC
- ocm38555507
- "This completely revised edition is an expansion of the Harlem Renaissance re-examined, Vol. 2 of the Georgia State Literary Studies Series"--Acknowledgments.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: the Harlem Renaissance re-examined / Victor A. Kramer -- A portfolio of Harlem Renaissance photographs / Chronology of the Harlem Renaissance / Robert A. Russ -- W.E.B. Du Bois and the theory of a black aesthetic / Darwin T. Turner -- Black-white symbiosis: another look at the literary history of the 1920s / Amritjit Singh -- The outer reaches: the white writer and blacks in the Twenties / Richard A. Long -- In pursuit of the primitive: black portraits by Eugene O'Neil and other village bohemians / John Cooley -- Going to school to DuBose Heyward / William H. Slavick -- "Refined racism": white patronage in the Harlem Renaissance / Bruce Kellner -- Carl Van Vechten presents the new Negro / Leon Coleman -- "What were they saying?": a selected overview of black women playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance / Nellie Y. McKay -- Crab antics and Jacob's ladder: Aaron Douglas's two views of Nigger Heaven / Charles Scruggs -- Black no more: George Schuyler and the politics of "racial culture" / Jane Kuenz -- Jean Toomer and the South: region and race as elements within a literary imagination / Charles T. Davis -- "The canker galls ...," or the short promising life of Wallace Thurman / Daniel Walden -- Countee Cullen: a key to the puzzle / Michael L. Lomax -- "A lack somewhere": Nella Larsen's Quicksand and the Harlem Renaissance / Lillie P. Howard -- Langston Hughes: evolution of the poetic persona / Raymond Smith -- A fisher of black life: short stories by Rudolph Fisher / Margaret Perry -- Conversations with Dorothy West / Deborah E. McDowell -- Hurston, humor and the Harlem Renaissance / John Lowe -- Sterling A. Brown and the Afro-American folk tradition / Charles H. Rowell -- "There's no place like home": the Carnival of black life in Claude Mckay's Home to Harlem / Afterword / Carolyn C. Denard -- The Harlem Renaissance: a selected bibliography / Robert A. Russ
Subjects
- American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
- American literature -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism.
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Harlem Renaissance.
- African Americans in literature.
- African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life.