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A history of the Harlem Renaissance /

"Essays such as W. E. B. Du Bois's "Criteria of Negro Art," Langston Hughes's "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," and George Schuyler' "The Negro-Art Hokum"--which make respective cases for art as propaganda, the cultural distinctiveness of b...

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Other Authors: Farebrother, Rachel (Editor), Thaggert, Miriam (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
African American arts > 20th century.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Harlem Renaissance.
African American arts.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
American literature.
American literature > African American authors.
Intellectual life.
New York (State) > New York > Harlem.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Re-reading the New Negro
  • Cultural Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the Harlem Renaissance / Daniel G. Williams
  • Making the Slave Anew: History and the Archive in New Negro Renaissance Poetry / Clare Corbould
  • The New Negro among White Modernists / Kathleen Pfeiffer
  • The Bildungsroman in the Harlem Renaissance / Mark Whalan
  • The Visual Image in New Negro Renaissance Print Culture / Caroline Goeser
  • Part II. Experimenting with the New Negro
  • Gwendolyn Brooks: Riot after the New Negro Renaissance / Sonya Posmentier
  • Romans à Clef of the Harlem Renaissance / Sinéad Moynihan
  • Modernist Biography and the Question of Manhood: Eslanda Goode Robeson's Paul Robeson, Negro / Fionnghuala Sweeney
  • Modernism and Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance / Maureen Honey
  • Children's Literature of the Harlem Renaissance / Katharine Capshaw
  • Part III. Re-mapping the New Negro
  • London, New York, and the Black Bolshevik Renaissance: Radical Black Internationalism during the New Negro Renaissance / James Smethurst
  • Island Relations, Continental Visions, and Graphic Networks / Jak Peake
  • "Symbols from Within": Charting the Nation's Regions in James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones / Noelle Morrissette
  • Rudolph Fisher: Renaissance Man and Harlem's Interpreter / Jonathan Munby
  • Part IV. Performing the New Negro
  • Zora Neale Hurston's Early Plays / Mariel Rodney
  • Zora Neale Hurston, Film, and Ethnography / Hannah Durkin
  • The Pulse of Harlem: African American Music and the New Negro Revival / Andrew Warnes
  • The Figure of the Child Dancer in Harlem Renaissance Literature and Visual Culture / Rachel Farebrother
  • Jazz and the Harlem Renaissance / Wendy Martin
  • Alain Locke and the Value of the Harlem Renaissance / Shane Vogel.