| Description |
iv, 234 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-234). |
| Contents |
Historical overview of the Harlem Renaissance -- African American literature before the Renaissance -- Afrian American literature in transition -- Origins of the Harlem Renaissance: 1924-1926 -- Harlem Renaissance, 1926-1930 -- Slow fade to black: the 1930s. |
| Summary |
Included in this volume are Paul Laurence Dunbar's poems; Charles W. Chesnutt's "The Wife of his youth"; A criticism and assessment by William Dean Howells; W.E.B. du Bois' poems and The quest of the silver fleece; James Weldon Johnson's poems and The autobiography of an ex-colored man; Claude McKay's poems; Jean Toomer's Cane; Jessie Fauset's There is confusion; Walter White's The fire in the flint; The Civic Club Dinner; Alain Locke's Survey graphic -- Harlem: Mecca of the new negro, and The new negro; The Opportunity literary contest; Carl Van Vechten's Nigger heaven; Fire!!; Langston Hughes' The negro artist and the racial mountain; W.E.B. du Bois on Artistic freedom and responsibility; Langston Hughes' poems, 1922-1930; Countee Cullen's poems from Color; James Weldon Johnson's God's trombones; Claude McKay's Home to Harlem and two reviews; Nell Larsen's Passing; Wallace Thurman's The blacker the berry; Langston Hughes' Not without laughter; Alain Locke's This year of grace; Arna Bontemps' God sends Sunday; Sterling Brown's Poems from Southern Road; Langston Hughes' A "social poet"; Zora Neal Hurston's Mules and men; and Criticism from The new challenge. |
| Subject |
Harlem Renaissance.
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Harlem Renaissance. |
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American literature -- African American authors.
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American literature -- African American authors. |
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African American authors.
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African American authors. |
| Added Author |
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906.
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Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932.
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Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920.
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Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946.
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Larsen, Nella.
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Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.
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Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938.
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Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964.
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McKay, Claude, 1890-1948.
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Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
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Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967.
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Fauset, Jessie Redmon.
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White, Walter, 1893-1955.
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Locke, Alain, 1885-1954.
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Thurman, Wallace, 1902-1934.
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Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973.
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Brown, Sterling A., 1901-1989.
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Hurston, Zora Neale.
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Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
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| Cover Title |
Harlem Renaissance a history and an anthology |
| ISBN |
1881089673 |
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9781881089674 |
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