Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance : a critical assessment / Leon Coleman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coleman, Leon, 1920-

Series:

Studies in African American history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964--Criticism and interpretation--History.

Van Vechten, Carl.

Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964.

African Americans--New York (State)--New York--Intellectual life--20th century.

African Americans.

Intellectual life.

Criticism and interpretation.

History.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.).

Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964. Nigger heaven.

Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964--Influence.

African Americans in literature.

Harlem Renaissance.

New York (State)--New York.

Physical Description:

xi, 185 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Garland Pub., 1998.

Summary:

This book evaluates Carl Van Vechten's contribution to the Harlem Renaissance by presenting hitherto unexamined documentary evidence. The author draws on correspondence, manuscripts, personal memorabilia, and published materials to examine the origins and development of the period in the 1920s which was termed the "New Negro Renaissance." In the later years of the 1920s, as a result of the success of his novel, "Nigger Heaven," Carl Van Vechten received extensive publicity associating him with Harlem and with the Harlem Renaissance. The vehement controversy which the book aroused among African American critics and the black press, who attacked it, and the African American authors and friends of Van Vechten who defended it, obscured the true extent of Van Vechten's role in the Harlem Renaissance. This study sheds light on the Van Vechten controversy which has continued to the present day. (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota, 1969; revised with new preface)

Notes:

Enlargement of author's thesis (Ph. D)--University of Minnesota, 1969.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-172) and index.

ISBN:

0815331266

OCLC:

38966161