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Harlem renaissance re-examined

Other Authors: Kramer, Victor A., Russ, Robert A.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Troy, N.Y. : Whitson Pub., [1997]
Physical Description: 416 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
Edition: Rev. and expanded ed.
Subjects:
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Harlem Renaissance.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. A portfolio of Harlem Renaissance photographs / Victor A. Kramer
  • Chronology of the Harlem Renaissance / Robert A. Russ
  • W.E.B. Du Bois and the theory of a black aesthetic / Darwin T. Turner
  • Black-white symbiosis: another look at the literary history of the 1920s / Amritjit Singh
  • The outer reaches: the white writer and blacks in the Twenties / Richard A. Long
  • In pursuit of the primitive: black portraits by Eugene O'Neil and other village bohemians / John Cooley
  • Going to school to DuBose Heyward / William H. Slavick
  • "Refined racism": white patronage in the Harlem Renaissance / Bruce Kellner
  • Carl Van Vechten presents the new Negro / Leon Coleman
  • "What were they saying?": a selected overview of black women playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance / Nellie Y. McKay
  • Crab antics and Jacob's ladder: Aaron Douglas's two views of Nigger Heaven / Charles Scruggs
  • Black no more: George Schuyler and the politics of "racial culture" / Jane Kuenz
  • Jean Toomer and the South: region and race as elements within a literary imagination / Charles T. Davis
  • "The canker galls ...," or the short promising life of Wallace Thurman / Daniel Walden
  • Countee Cullen: a key to the puzzle / Michael L. Lomax
  • "A lack somewhere": Nella Larsen's Quicksand and the Harlem Renaissance / Lillie P. Howard
  • Langston Hughes: evolution of the poetic persona / Raymond Smith
  • A fisher of black life: short stories by Rudolph Fisher / Margaret Perry
  • Conversions with Dorothy West / Deborah E. McDowell
  • Hurston, humor and the Harlem Renaissance / John Lowe
  • Sterling A. Bowen and the Afro-American folk tradition / Charles H. Rowell
  • "There's no place like home": the Carnival of black life in Claude Mckay's Home to Harlem / Robert A. Russ
  • Afterword / Carolyn C. Denard.

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