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A companion to the Harlem Renaissance / edited by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 91.
- Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 91
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Harlem Renaissance.
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--African American authors.
- African American arts--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
- African American arts.
- African Americans in popular culture.
- African Americans in literature.
- Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.
- Literature and society.
- United States.
- History.
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 484 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex, UK; Malden, MA, USA : Wiley Blackwell, 2015.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Part I Foundations 15
- 1 What Renaissance?: A Deep Genealogy of Black Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York City / Carla L. Peterson Peterson, Carla L. 17
- 2 Postbellum, Pre-Harlem: Black Writing before the Renaissance / Andreá N. Williams Williams, Andreá N. 35
- 3 Harlem Nights: Expressive Culture, Popular Performance, and the New Negro / Jayna Brown Brown, Jayna 51
- 4 The New Negro and the New South / Erin D. Chapman Chapman, Erin D. 65
- Part II Spotlight: Readings and Genre 81
- 5 "All the loving words I never dared to speak": Angelina Weld Grimke's Sapphic Modernism / Alaureen Honey Honey, Alaureen 83
- 6 Modernism and the Urban Frontier in the Work of Dorothy West and Helene Johnson / Cynthia Davis Davis, Cynthia, Verner D. Mitchell Mitchell, Verner D. 103
- 7 Blueprints for Negro Reading: Sterling Brown's Study Guides / Sonya Posmentier Posmentier, Sonya 119
- 8 Fashioning Internationalism in Jessie Redmon Fauset's Writing / Elizabeth M. Sheehan Sheehan, Elizabeth M. 137
- 9 The New Negro Iconoclast, or, The Curious Case of George Samuel Schuyler / Ivy G. Wilson Wilson, Ivy G. 155
- 10 Nella Larsen's Spiritual Strivings / Kathy L. Glass Glass, Kathy L. 171
- 11 Pastoral and the Problem of Place in Claude McKay's Harlem Shadows / Jennifer Chang Chang, Jennifer 187
- 12 Gwendolyn Bennett: A Leading Voice of the Harlem Renaissance / Belinda Wheeler Wheeler, Belinda 203
- 13 Reconsidering the Literary Career of Chicago's Zara Wright / Rynetta Davis Davis, Rynetta 219
- 14 "Betwixt and between": Zora Neale Hurston In-and Out-of Harlem / Carla Kaplan Kaplan, Carla 231
- Part III Salon Culture: The Visual, Performative, and Expressive Arts 249
- 15 Salon Cultures and Spaces of Culture Edification / André M. Carrington Carrington, André M. 251
- 16 The Sensuous Harlem Renaissance: Sexuality and Queer Culture / Shane Vogel Vogel, Shane 267
- 17 Changing Optics: Harlem Renaissance Theater and Performance / Soyica Diggs Colbert Colbert, Soyica Diggs 285
- 18 Phonography, Race Records, and the Blues Poetry of Langston Hughes / Lisa Hollenbach Hollenbach, Lisa 301
- 19 Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Sculpture of the Harlem Renaissance / Kirsten Pai Buick Buick, Kirsten Pai 317
- Part IV Interracialism 337
- 20 Authenticity and the Boundaries of Blackness / J. Martin Favor Favor, J. Martin 339
- 21 Black Marxism and the Literary Left / Gary Ed-ward Holcomb Holcomb, Gary Ed-ward 351
- 22 "Light, bright and damn near white": Representations of Mixed Race in the Harlem Renaissance / Michek Elam Elam, Michek 369
- Part V Beyond Harlem: New Geographies and Lasting Influences 385
- 23 The Aesthetics of Anticipation: The Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement / Margo Natalie Crawford Crawford, Margo Natalie 387
- 24 The "Lost Years" or a "Decade of Progress"?: African American Writers and the Second World War / Vaughn Rasberry Rasberry, Vaughn 403
- 25 Ethiopia in the Verse of the Late Harlem Renaissance / Nadia Nurhussein Nurhussein, Nadia 423
- 26 Mapping the Harlem Renaissance in the Americas / Michael Soto Soto, Michael 441
- 27 Virtual Harlem: Experiencing the New Negro Renaissance / Bryan Carter Carter, Bryan 457.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Companion to the Harlem Renaissance
- ISBN:
- 9781118494141
- 1118494148
- Publisher Number:
- 99984552324
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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