| Description |
867 pages ; 21 cm. |
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The Library of America ; 217 |
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Library of America ; 217.
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| Contents |
Cane / Jean Toomer -- Home to Harlem / Claude McKay -- Quicksand / Nella Larsen -- Plum bun / Jessie Redmon Fauset -- The blacker the berry / Wallace Thurman. |
| Summary |
Five Novels of the 1920s leads off with Jean Toomer's Cane (1923), a unique fusion of fiction, poetry, and drama rooted in Toomer's experiences as a teacher in Georgia. Toomer's masterpiece was followed within a few years by a cluster of novels exploring black experience and the dilemmas of black identity in a variety of modes and from different angles. Claude McKay's Home to Harlem (1928), whose freewheeling, impressionistic, bawdy kaleidoscope of Jazz Age nightlife made it a best seller, traces the picaresque adventures of Jake, a World War I veteran, within and beyond Harlem. Nella Larsen's Quicksand (1928), the poignant, nuanced psychological portrait of a woman caught between the two worlds of her mixed Scandinavian and African American heritage; Jessie Redmon Fauset's Plum Bun (1928), the richly detailed account of a young art student's struggles to advance her career in a society full of obstacles both overt and insidiously concealed; and Wallace Thurman's The Blacker the Berry (1929), with its anguished, provocative look at prejudice and exclusion as it tells of a new arrival in Harlem searching for love, each in its distinct way testifies to the enduring power of the Harlem ferment. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- African American authors.
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American fiction -- New York (State) -- New York.
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American fiction -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Fiction.
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Harlem Renaissance.
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| Added Author |
Zafar, Rafia.
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Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967.
Cane.
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McKay, Claude, 1890-1948.
Home to Harlem.
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Larsen, Nella.
Quicksand.
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Fauset, Jessie Redmon.
Plum bun.
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Thurman, Wallace, 1902-1934.
Blacker the berry.
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| ISBN |
9781598530995: $35.00 |
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1598530992 |
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