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Countée Cullen's Harlem Renaissance : a personal history /

Essays by his grandson portray Countée Cullen and his circles from the 1920s to the 1960s.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, Kevin, 1960- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Anderson, South Carolina : Parlor Press, [2024].
Series:Illuminations (Anderson, S.C.)
Subjects:
Cullen, Countee, > 1903-1946.
African American poets > Biography.
Harlem Renaissance.
Table of Contents:
  • The wedding
  • Long way from home
  • Countée Cullen as himself
  • An old woman remembers : the Harlem Renaissance
  • Harlem shadows
  • Exodus
  • The muses are unemployed
  • Among schoolchildren
  • James Baldwin I
  • Countée & Ida Mae
  • Physiology of a marriage
  • The hill & the hollow
  • James Baldwin II
  • Come rain or come shine
  • The funeral
  • Executrix
  • Words in the mourning time
  • When and where I enter
  • Don't come home early, child
  • Conjure women
  • A valediction
  • Sterling A. Brown : broad noon daylight
  • Ms. Annye, Li'l Robert Johnson and them
  • The collective dark : James Baldwin III.