| Description |
xx, 272 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-264) and index. |
| Contents |
Foundations of the Harlem Renaissance. The New Negro as citizen / Jeffrey C. Stewart -- The Renaissance and the Vogue / Emily Bernard -- International contexts of the Negro Renaissance / Michael A. Chaney -- Major Authors and Texts. Negro drama and the Harlem Renaissance / David Krasner -- Jean Toomer and the Avant-Garde / Mark Whalan -- "To Tell the Truth About Us": the fictions and non-fictions of Jessie Fauset and Walter White / Cheryl A. Wall -- African American folk roots and Harlem Renaissance poetry / Mark A. Sanders -- Lyric stars: Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes / James Smethurst -- "Perhaps Buddha Is a Woman": Women's poetry in the Harlem Renaissance / Margo Natalie Crawford -- Transgressive sexuality and the literature of the Harlem Renaissance / A.B. Christa Schwarz -- Sexual desire, modernity and modernism in the fiction of Nella Larsen and Rudolph Fisher /Charles Scruggs -- Banjo meets the Dark Princess: Claude McKay, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the transnational novel of the Harlem Renaissance / William J. Maxwell -- The Caribbean voices of Claude McKay and Eric Walrond / Carl Pedersen -- George Schuyler and Wallace Thurman: two satirists of the Harlem Renaissance / J. Martin Favor -- Zora Neale Hurston, folk performance, and the "Margarine Negro" / Carla Kaplan -- The Post-Renaissance. "The Aftermath": the reputation of the Harlem Renaisance twenty years later / Lawrence Jackson. |
| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
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African Americans in literature.
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African American aesthetics.
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Harlem Renaissance.
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| Added Author |
Hutchinson, George, 1953-
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| Added Title |
Companion to the Harlem Renaissance |
| ISBN |
052185699X hardback alkaline paper |
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9780521856997 hardback alkaline paper |
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0521673682 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780521673686 paperback alkaline paper |
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