A history of the Harlem Renaissance / edited by Rachel Farebrother, Swansea University ; Miriam Thaggert, SUNY-Buffalo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Farebrother, Rachel, editor.

Thaggert, Miriam, editor.

Cambridge University Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

American literature--African American authors.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

African American arts--20th century.

African American arts.

African Americans in literature.

African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

Harlem Renaissance.

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

Harlem (New York, N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 432 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part I. Re-reading the New Negro

Cultural Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the Harlem Renaissance / Daniel G. Williams

Making the Slave Anew: History and the Archive in New Negro Renaissance Poetry / Clare Corbould

The New Negro among White Modernists / Kathleen Pfeiffer

The Bildungsroman in the Harlem Renaissance / Mark Whalan

The Visual Image in New Negro Renaissance Print Culture / Caroline Goeser

Part II. Experimenting with the New Negro

Gwendolyn Brooks: Riot after the New Negro Renaissance / Sonya Posmentier

Romans à Clef of the Harlem Renaissance / Sinéad Moynihan

Modernist Biography and the Question of Manhood: Eslanda Goode Robeson's Paul Robeson, Negro / Fionnghuala Sweeney

Modernism and Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance / Maureen Honey

Children's Literature of the Harlem Renaissance / Katharine Capshaw

Part III. Re-mapping the New Negro

London, New York, and the Black Bolshevik Renaissance: Radical Black Internationalism during the New Negro Renaissance / James Smethurst

Island Relations, Continental Visions, and Graphic Networks / Jak Peake

"Symbols from Within": Charting the Nation's Regions in James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones / Noelle Morrissette

Rudolph Fisher: Renaissance Man and Harlem's Interpreter / Jonathan Munby

Part IV. Performing the New Negro

Zora Neale Hurston's Early Plays / Mariel Rodney

Zora Neale Hurston, Film, and Ethnography / Hannah Durkin

The Pulse of Harlem: African American Music and the New Negro Revival / Andrew Warnes

The Figure of the Child Dancer in Harlem Renaissance Literature and Visual Culture / Rachel Farebrother

Jazz and the Harlem Renaissance / Wendy Martin

Alain Locke and the Value of the Harlem Renaissance / Shane Vogel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 11, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: A history of the Harlem Renaissance

ISBN:

9781108656313

1108656315

Publisher Number:

99986505939

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Restricted for use by site license.