A companion to the Harlem Renaissance

Other Authors: Sherrard-Johnson, Cherene, 1973-
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK; Malden, MA, USA : Wiley Blackwell, 2015.
Physical Description: xii, 484 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 91.
Subjects:
Item Description: Includes bibliographical references and index.
What Renaissance?: A Deep Genealogy of Black Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York City / Carla L. Peterson -- Postbellum, Pre-Harlem: Black Writing before the Renaissance / Andreá N. Williams -- Harlem Nights: Expressive Culture, Popular Performance, and the New Negro / Jayna Brown -- The New Negro and the New South / Erin D. Chapman -- "All the loving words I never dared to speak": Angelina Weld Grimké's Sapphic Modernism / Maureen Honey -- Modernism and the Urban Frontier in the Work of Dorothy West and Helene Johnson / Cynthia Davis and Verner D. Mitchell -- Blueprints for Negro Reading: Sterling Brown's Study Guides / Sonya Posmentier -- Fashioning Internationalism in Jessie Redmon Fauset's Writing / Elizabeth M. Sheehan -- The New Negro Iconoclast, or, The Curious Case of George Samuel Schuyler / Ivy G. Wilson -- Nella Larsen's Spiritual Strivings / Kathy L. Glass -- Pastoral and the Problem of Place in Claude McKay's Harlem Shadows / Jennifer Chang -- Gwendolyn Bennett: A Leading Voice of the Harlem Renaissance / Belinda Wheeler -- Reconsidering the Literary Career of Chicago's Zara Wright / Rynetta Davis -- "Betwixt and between": Zora Neale Hurston Inand Outof Harlem / Carla Kaplan -- Salon Cultures and Spaces of Culture Edification / andré m. Carrington -- The Sensuous Harlem Renaissance: Sexuality and Queer Culture / Shane Vogel -- Changing Optics: Harlem Renaissance Theater and Performance / Soyica Diggs Colbert -- Phonography, Race Records, and the Blues Poetry of Langston Hughes / Lisa Hollenbach -- Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Sculpture of the Harlem Renaissance / Kirsten Pai Buick -- Authenticity and the Boundaries of Blackness / J. Martin Favor -- Black Marxism and the Literary Left / Gary Edward Holcomb -- "Light, bright and damn near white": Representations of Mixed Race in the Harlem Renaissance / Michele Elam -- The Aesthetics of Anticipation: The Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement / Margo Natalie Crawford -- The "Lost Years" or a "Decade of Progress"?: African American Writers and the Second World War / Vaughn Rasberry -- Ethiopia in the Verse of the Late Harlem Renaissance / Nadia Nurhussein -- Mapping the Harlem Renaissance in the Americas / Michael Soto -- Virtual Harlem: Experiencing the New Negro Renaissance / Bryan Carter.
Physical Description: xii, 484 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781118494066
1118494067