Title Writing the Harlem Renaissance : revisiting the vision / edited by Emily Allen Williams

Published Lanham : Lexington Books, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Contents Preface / Emily Allen Williams -- Introduction / Reginald Martin -- Writing the Harlem Renaissance: spatial representations and memorandums of [mis] understanding. The greatest joy in life: Geraldyn Dismond's transformative coverage of the Hamilton Lodge Ball / Jacqueline C. Jones -- Towards a trans-Atlantic approach: tracing the modernist psychodrama and wasteland critique: the poetry of the political imagination / Christopher Varlack -- The impact of the Harlem Renaissance on the development of the African American voice within literature / Mary Lynn Chambers -- Blackness, beauty, and interracial posturing: sociological and literary representations. Dubois and Larsen: the convergence of contrasting literary genres / Imani Michelle Scott -- Jean Toomer's Cane in the Harlem Renaissance: modernity, individuality, and language / Gerardo Del Guercio -- In search of our mother's dignity: the plight of African American women in selected Harlem Renaissance literature / Devona Mallory -- Revisiting the "mulatto" stereotype in passing and the autobiography of an ex-colored man / Antonia Iliadou Summary This study examines literary and cultural developments in the community of Harlem during its renaissance period in the 1920s. The contributors analyze the Harlem Renaissance from a number of angles by investigating the works of literary writers, journalists, and sociologists of the period and connect the era to present-day Harlem Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher Subject 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. Harlem Renaissance. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature American literature -- African American 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 Williams, Emily Allen editor LC no. 2017018691 ISBN 9780739196816 0739196812

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