The Harlem Renaissance /

Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s was the epicenter of a rebirth in African-American literature with the poetry and prose of writers such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Gwendolyn Brooks. This volume examines the defining themes and styles of African-American literature during this period....

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Bloom, Harold
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, 2004.
Series:	Bloom's period studies.
Subjects:	American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century. African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century. African Americans in literature. Harlem Renaissance.
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Table of Contents:

Harlem Renaissance re-examined / Warrington Hudlin
Shape and shapers of the movement / Margaret Perry
Black-white symbiosis : another look at the literary history of the 1920s / Amritjit Singh
Langston Hughes : evolution of the poetic persona / Raymond Smith
"Refined racism" : white patronage in the Harlem Renaissance / Bruce Kellner
Color, sex, and poetry in the Harlem Renaissance / Akasha Gloria Hull
Black autobiography and the comic vision / Richard K. Barksdale
Harlem and the first Black Renaissance / Eva Lennox Birch
Reading the Harlem Renaissance / David Levering Lewis
Black Manhattan / James Weldon Johnson
The new Negro / Alain Locke
The Negro Renaissance and its significance / Charles S. Johnson
The pulse of the Negro world / Amy Helene Kirschke
The Negro author and his publisher / Sterling A. Brown
Aspects of identity in Nella Larsen's novels / Cheryl A. Wall
Survival and song : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance / Maureen Honey
Iconography of the Harlem Renaissance / Patti Capel Swartz
Toomer's Cane and the Harlem Renaissance / Geneviève Fabre
The syncopated African / Michel Feith.