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Harlem Renaissance, William S. McConnell, book editor

Label
Harlem Renaissance, William S. McConnell, book editor
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Harlem Renaissance
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
50590646
Responsibility statement
William S. McConnell, book editor
Series statement
The Greenhaven Press companion to literary movements and genres
Summary
An anthology of essays and excerpted writings presents multiple perspectives on the writers, literature, and social meaning of the Harlem Renaissance
Table Of Contents
The capital of Negro culture / James Weldon Johnson -- The new Negro identity Alain Locke -- The West Indian influence on Harlem / W.A. Domingo -- African heritage in the Harlem Renaissance / Sonia Delgado-Tall -- Early achievements of Black theater / Loften Mitchell -- The absence of Negro drama / Sterling A. Brown -- Slow progress of Black drama / Nellie McKay -- Women playrights of the Harlem Renaissance / Elizabeth Brown-Guillory -- Claude Mckay: primitive instinct versus Black intellectualism / Michael B. Stoff -- Jean Toomer and the biracial identity / George Hutchinson -- Religion, love and social conscience in Countee Cullen's poetry / Nicholas Canaday Jr. -- Nigger heaven and the Van Vechten vogue / Hugh M. Gloster -- The theme of Harlem in Langston Hughes's poetry / Arthur P. Davis -- White patronage in the Harlem Renaissance / Bruce Kellner -- Charles S. Johnson and the emancipation of Black artists / Ralph L. Pearson -- The Negro artist and the racial mountain / Langston Hughes -- The alienation of Negro literature / Charles I. Glicksberg -- The origin of modern Black expression / Mbulamwanza Mudimbe-Boyi -- The failure of the creative intellectual / Harold Cruse
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