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Author Capshaw, Katharine.

Title Children's literature of the Harlem Renaissance / Katharine Capshaw Smith.

Publication Info. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 338 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Blacks in the diaspora
Blacks in the diaspora.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The Emblematic Black Child: Du Bois's Crisis Publications -- Creating the Past, Present, and Future: New Negro Children's Drama -- The Legacy of the South: Revisiting the Plantation Tradition -- The Peacemakers: Carter G. Woodson's Circle -- The Aesthetics of Black Children's Literature: Arna Bontemps and Langston Hughes.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Summary The Harlem Renaissance, the period associated with the flowering of the arts in Harlem, inaugurated a tradition of African American children's literature, for the movement's central writers made youth both their subject and audience. W.E.B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, Langston Hughes, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and other Harlem Renaissance figures took an impassioned interest in the literary models offered to children, believing that the "New Negro" would ultimately arise from black youth. As a result, African.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- African American authors.
American literature -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism.
American literature.
New York (State) -- New York.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Children's literature, American -- History and criticism.
Children's literature, American.
African American children -- Books and reading.
African American children -- Books and reading.
African American children in literature.
African American children in literature.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Harlem Renaissance.
Harlem Renaissance.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Smith, Katharine Capshaw, 1968- Children's literature of the Harlem Renaissance. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2004 0253344433 (DLC) 2003025351 (OCoLC)53814096
ISBN 0253110920 (electronic book)
9780253110923 (electronic book)
0253344433
9780253344434
0253218888 (paperback)
9780253218889 (paperback)