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Author Mitchell, Verner D., 1957-

Title Literary sisters : Dorothy West and her circle : a biography of the Harlem Renaissance / Verner D. Mitchell and Cynthia Davis
Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 200 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents Chapter 1 -- "Nothing So Broadening as Travel"; Chapter 2 -- The Benson Family Comes to Boston; Chapter 3 -- Pauline Hopkins and African American Literature in New England; Chapter 4 -- Boston Girlhoods, 1910-1925; Chapter 5 -- The Youngest Members of the Harlem Renaissance, 1926-1931; Chapter 6 -- Russian Interlude, Literary Salons, and Challenge
Summary "Harlem Renaissance writer Dorothy West led a charmed life in many respects. Born into a distinguished Boston family, she appeared in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, then lived in the Soviet Union with a group that included Langston Hughes, to whom she proposed marriage. She later became friends with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who encouraged her to finish her second novel, The Wedding, which became the octogenarian author's first bestseller. Literary Sisters reveals a different side of West's personal and professional lives - her struggles for recognition outside of the traditional literary establishment, and her collaborations with talented African American women writers, artists, and performers who faced these same problems. West and her "literary sisters"--Women like Zora Neale Hurston and West's cousin, poet Helene Johnson - created an emotional support network that also aided in promoting, publishing, and performing their respective works. Integrating rare photos, letters, and archival materials from West's life, Literary Sisters is not only a groundbreaking biography of an increasingly important author but also a vivid portrait of a pivotal moment for African American women in the arts."--Project Muse
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject West, Dorothy, 1907-1998 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT West, Dorothy, 1907-1998 fast
Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
African American women -- Intellectual life
African American women in literature.
African American arts -- New York (State) -- New York
Harlem Renaissance.
Harlem Renaissance.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
African American arts
African American women in literature
African American women -- Intellectual life
American literature -- African American authors
American literature -- Women authors
Harlem Renaissance
Intellectual life
SUBJECT Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Subject New York (State) -- New York
New York (State) -- New York -- Harlem
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Davis, Cynthia, 1946-
ISBN 9780813552132
0813552133
Other Titles Dorothy West and her circle : a biography of the Harlem Renaissance