Selection of papers presented at a conference held May 2-4, 1985, and sponsored by the Hofstra Cultural Center.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Primitivism as a therapeutic pursuit: notes toward a reassessment of Harlem Renaissance literature / Robert A. Coles and Diane Isaacs -- White writers and the Harlem Renaissance / John Cooley -- Carl Van Vechten's Black Renaissance / Bruce Kellner -- Philadelphia's literary circle and the Harlem Renaissance / Vincent Jubilee -- Langston Hughes and approaches to modernism in the Harlem Renaissance / Arnold Rampersad -- Sterling A. Brown: outsider in the Harlem Renaissance? / Robert B. Stepto -- Langston Hughes and the blues he couldn't lose / Richard K. Barksdale -- Sterling Brown, poet, his place in Afro-American literary history / Charles H. Nichols -- Countee Cullen at "the heights" / James W. Tuttleton -- Vindication as a thematic principle in Alain Locke's writings on the music of Black Americans / Paul Joseph Burgett -- Controversial sounds: jazz performance as theme and language in the Harlem Renaissance / Kathy J. Ogren -- Europa jazz in the 1920s and the musical discovery of Harlem / Barbara L. Tischler -- Early recognitions: Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes in New York, 1920-1930 / Joseph McLaren -- Jean Toomer and the writers of the Harlem Renaissance: was he there with them? / Rudolph P. Byrd -- Claude McKay's Marxism / Geta LeSeur -- Aesthetics of community: the insular Black community as theme and focus in Hurston's's Their eyes were watching God / Mary Katherine Wainwright -- Nella Larsen's Harlem aesthetic / Thadious M. Davis -- Star of Ethiopia: a contribution toward the development of Black drama and theater in the Harlem Renaissance / Freda L. Scott -- Léopold Sédar Senghor's Freedom I -negritude and humanism (1964) / Wendell A. Jean-Pierre -- Harlem Renaissance: sources of information for research / Margaret Perry.