Title The Cambridge companion to the Harlem Renaissance / edited by George Hutchinson

Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 272 pages) Series Cambridge collections online Cambridge collections online Cambridge companions to literature Contents Foundations of the Harlem Renaissance. The New Negro as citizen / Jeffrey C. Stewart -- The Renaissance and the Vogue / Emily Bernard -- International contexts of the Negro Renaissance / Michael A. Chaney -- Major Authors and Texts. Negro drama and the Harlem Renaissance / David Krasner -- Jean Toomer and the Avant-Garde / Mark Whalan -- "To Tell the Truth About Us": the fictions and non-fictions of Jessie Fauset and Walter White / Cheryl A. Wall -- African American folk roots and Harlem Renaissance poetry / Mark A. Sanders -- Lyric stars: Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes / James Smethurst -- "Perhaps Buddha Is a Woman": Women's poetry in the Harlem Renaissance / Margo Natalie Crawford -- Transgressive sexuality and the literature of the Harlem Renaissance / A.B. Christa Schwarz -- Sexual desire, modernity and modernism in the fiction of Nella Larsen and Rudolph Fisher /Charles Scruggs -- Banjo meets the Dark Princess: Claude McKay, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the transnational novel of the Harlem Renaissance / William J. Maxwell -- The Caribbean voices of Claude McKay and Eric Walrond / Carl Pedersen -- George Schuyler and Wallace Thurman: two satirists of the Harlem Renaissance / J. Martin Favor -- Zora Neale Hurston, folk performance, and the "Margarine Negro" / Carla Kaplan -- The Post-Renaissance. "The Aftermath": the reputation of the Harlem Renaissance twenty years later / Lawrence Jackson Summary The Harlem Renaissance (1918-1937) was the most influential single movement in African American literary history. With chapters by a wide range of well-known scholars, this text is an authoritative and engaging guide to the movement Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-264) and index Notes Print version record Subject African American aesthetics African Americans in literature American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Harlem Renaissance Modernism (Literature) -- United States African American aesthetics. African Americans in literature. American Literature. American literature -- African American authors. American literature. English. Harlem Renaissance. Intellectual life. Languages & Literatures. Modernism (Literature) SUBJECT Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century Subject New York (State) -- New York -- Harlem. United States. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Hutchinson, George, 1953- LC no. 2006039244 ISBN 1139001590 (electronic bk.) 9781139001595 (electronic bk.) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (hbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (hbk. ; alk. paper)

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