The Harlem Renaissance : an anthology /

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 a...

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Main Author: Wintz, Cary D., 1943-
Other Authors: Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906, Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932, Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920, Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946, Larsen, Nella, Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938, Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964, McKay, Claude, 1890-1948, Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967, Fauset, Jessie Redmon, White, Walter, 1893-1955, Locke, Alain, 1885-1954, Thurman, Wallace, 1902-1934, Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973, Brown, Sterling A., 1901-1989, Hurston, Zora Neale, Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Maplecrest, N.Y. : Brandywine Press, [2003]
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Table of 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.