The Harlem Renaissance / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Summary:

Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s was the epicenter of a rebirth in African-American literature with the poetry and prose of writers such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Gwendolyn Brooks. This volume examines the defining themes and styles of African-American literature during this period. Presents essays that document the origins and influence of the Harlem Renaissance, focusing on key writing figures and artists and the many challenges they faced.

Record details

ISBN: 0791076792
ISBN: 9780791076798
Physical Description: vi, 336 pages ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, 2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-314) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Harlem Renaissance re-examined / Warrington Hudlin -- Shape and shapers of the movement / Margaret Perry -- Black-white symbiosis : another look at the literary history of the 1920s / Amritjit Singh -- Langston Hughes : evolution of the poetic persona / Raymond Smith -- "Refined racism" : white patronage in the Harlem Renaissance / Bruce Kellner -- Color, sex, and poetry in the Harlem Renaissance / Akasha Gloria Hull -- Black autobiography and the comic vision / Richard K. Barksdale -- Harlem and the first Black Renaissance / Eva Lennox Birch -- Reading the Harlem Renaissance / David Levering Lewis -- Black Manhattan / James Weldon Johnson -- The new Negro / Alain Locke -- The Negro Renaissance and its significance / Charles S. Johnson -- The pulse of the Negro world / Amy Helene Kirschke -- The Negro author and his publisher / Sterling A. Brown -- Aspects of identity in Nella Larsen's novels / Cheryl A. Wall -- Survival and song : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance / Maureen Honey -- Iconography of the Harlem Renaissance / Patti Capel Swartz -- Toomer's Cane and the Harlem Renaissance / Genevieve Fabre -- The syncopated African / Michel Feith.