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Title The Harlem renaissance : revaluations / [edited by] Amritjit Singh, William S. Shiver, Stanley Brodwin.

Publication Info. New York : Garland, 1989.

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 Moore Stacks  PS153.B53 H264 1989    Available  ---
Description xv, 342 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series Critical studies on Black life and culture ; vol. 17
Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 837
Critical studies on Black life and culture ; v. 17.
Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 837.
Note 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.
Form Also issued online.
Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
American literature -- African American authors.
American literature -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
American literature.
New York (State) -- New York.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life -- Congresses.
African Americans.
Intellectual life.
African American arts -- New York (State) -- New York -- Congresses.
African American arts.
African Americans in literature -- Congresses.
African Americans in literature.
Harlem Renaissance -- Congresses.
Harlem Renaissance.
Indexed Term English literature
United States
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Singh, Amritjit.
Shiver, William S.
Brodwin, Stanley.
Hofstra Cultural Center.
Other Form: Online version: Harlem renaissance. New York : Garland, 1989 (OCoLC)597165088
ISBN 0824057392 alkaline paper
9780824057398 alkaline paper