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Women of the Harlem renaissance

Features chapters on Jessie Redmon Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston and Nella Larsen. Also discusses other artists including Josephine Baker, Gwendolyn Bennett, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Charlotte Mason, Bessie Smith, Anne Spencer, and Jean Toomer.

Main Author: Wall, Cheryl A.
Other Authors: EBSCOhost.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1995]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xx, 246 pages) : illustrations.
Series: Women of letters (Bloomington, Ind.)
Subjects:
Fauset, Jessie Redmon -- Criticism and interpretation.
Hurston, Zora Neale -- Criticism and interpretation.
Larsen, Nella -- Criticism and interpretation.
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
African American women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
Harlem Renaissance.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life.
Electronic books.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword /
  • by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar.
  • Prologue: a note on the journey.
  • On being young, a woman, and colored: when Harlem was in vogue.
  • Jessie Redmon Fauset: traveling in place.
  • Nella Larsen: passing for what?
  • Zora Neale Hurston's traveling blues.
  • Epilogue: destinations deferred.
  • Selected bibliography of writings by women of the Harlem Renaissance.

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