| Edition |
Revised and expanded edition. |
| Description |
416 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm |
| Note |
"This completely revised edition is an expansion of the Harlem Renaissance re-examined, Vol. 2 of the Georgia State Literary Studies Series"--Acknowledgments. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction. A portfolio of Harlem Renaissance photographs / Victor A. Kramer -- 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'Neilland 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. Bowen 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 / Robert A. Russ -- Afterword / Carolyn C. Denard. |
| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Harlem Renaissance.
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life.
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| Added Author |
Kramer, Victor A.
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Russ, Robert A.
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| ISBN |
0878754881 |
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