Children's literature of the Harlem Renaissance / Katharine Capshaw Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Katharine Capshaw, 1968-

Series:

Blacks in the diaspora.

Blacks in the diaspora

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--New York (State)--New York--History and criticism.

Children's literature, American--History and criticism.

Children's literature, American.

African American children--Books and reading.

African American children.

African American children in literature.

African Americans in literature.

Harlem Renaissance.

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

Harlem (New York, N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2004.

Summary:

The Harlem Renaissance, the period associated with the flowering of the arts in Harlem, inaugurated a tradition of African American children's literature, for the movement's central writers made youth both their subject and audience. W.E.B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, Langston Hughes, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and other Harlem Renaissance figures took an impassioned interest in the literary models offered to children, believing that the "New Negro" would ultimately arise from black youth. As a result, African American children's literature became a crucial medium through which a disparate community forged bonds of cultural, economic, and aesthetic solidarity. Kate Capshaw Smith explores the period's vigorous exchange about the nature and identity of black childhood and uncovers the networks of African American philosophers, community activists, schoolteachers, and literary artists who worked together to transmit black history and culture to the next generation.

Contents:

Cover; TOC; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Emblematic Black Child: Du Bois's Crisis Publications; 2. Creating the Past, Present, and Future: New Negro Children'sDrama; 3. The Legacy of the South: Revisiting the Plantation Tradition; 4. The Peacemakers: Carter G. Woodson's Circle; 5. The Aesthetics of Black Children's Literature: Arna Bontempsand Langston Hughes; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-325) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-07176-9

0-253-11092-0

OCLC:

614817772