Harlem Renaissance / editor, Christopher Allen Varlack, Loyola University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Varlack, Christopher Allen, editor.

Series:

Critical insights.

Critical Insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

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

Harlem Renaissance.

Race in literature.

African American women in literature.

African Americans in literature.

Passing (Identity) in literature.

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

Harlem (New York, N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 335 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2015]

Summary:

This compilation of essays takes a closer look at this pivotal point in African American history, as well as its origins, identity, portrayal, of women, and rediscovered authors. This title seeks to offer not only expanded readings of the central themes that have long captivated the attention of scholars across time, but also providing valuable insight into the texts, authors, and critical perspectives too often overlooked.Critical Insights: Harlem Renaissance presents the period of unparallel growth in art and literature from the African American Community, also known as the Harlem Renaissance. With its production of key authors, from Langston Hughes to Claude McKay, among others, the Harlem Renaissance saw the rise in creative endeavors by black artists and writers eager to celebrate the unique characteristics of black life and to challenge the institutionalized racial hierarchy pervasive within twentieth-century American society.These creative thinkers, certainly intellectuals in their own right, used their poetry, short stories, novels, and plays as a vehicle to critique the longstanding issues within society that limited socioeconomic mobility for blacks, while perpetuating startling stereotypes about a community too long oppressed. Because of its undeniable impact in shaping the American cultural imagination regarding blacks and on the larger American literary canon, the Harlem Renaissance has since been heavily studied as the most significant period of artistic as well as cultural development the African American community has ever experienced.

Contents:

The Harlem Renaissance: The New Negro Intellectual and the Poetry of the Sociopolitical Imagination / Christopher Allen Varlack

Critical Contexts. Dawn in Harlem: Exploring the Origins of the Harlem Renaissance through Image and Text / Carolyn Kyler ; Apathetic Critiques Revisited: Jean Toomer's Cane and Its Importance to the Harlem Renaissance / Geraldo Del Guercio ; Sugar Cane and Women's Identity in Selected Works of Zora Neale Hurston / Allyson Denise Marino ; Mobile Subjects in Faulkner, Larsen, and Thurman: Racial Parody and the White Northern Literary Field / Cheryl Lester

Critical Readings. The New Negro: The Politics and Aesthetics of the Harlem Renaissance. "Hectic Rhythms": Unseen and Unappreciated Knowledge in Harlem Renaissance Fiction / Jericho Williams ; Toward a Theory of Art as Propaganda: Re-Evaluating the Political Novels of the Harlem Renaissance / Christopher Allen Varlack ; "The Bitter River": Langston Hughes and the Violent South / Seretha D. Williams

Across the Color Line: Racial Passing and the Harlem Renaissance. Racial Connections in "Time Space": A Chronotopic Approach to Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man / Holly Simpson Fling ; Framing Racial Identity and Class: Magnifying Themes of Assimilation and Passing in the Works of Johnson and Hughes / Charlotte Teague ; "Why Hadn't She Spoken That Day?": The Destructive Power of Racial Silence in Nella Larsen's Passing / Holly T. Baker ; Just Passing Through: The Harlem Renaissance Woman on the Move / Joshua M. Murray

Black Woman/Black Mother: Toward a Theory of the New Negro Woman. Grimké's Sentimentalism in Rachel: Subversion as an Act of Feminism / Lisa Elwood-Farber ; Where is that "Ark uv Safty"? Tracing the Role of the Black Woman as Protector in Georgia Douglas Johnson's Plays / Brandon L.A. Hutchinson ; "Don't knock at my door, little child": The Mantled Poetics of Georgia Douglas Johnson's Motherhood Poetry / Michelle J. Pinkard

The New Negro Revisited: New Readings of the Harlem Renaissance. Writing Across the Color Line: Carl Van Vechten's Nigger Heaven and the Insatiable Hunger for Literature of Black American Life / Christopher Allen Varlack ; Dancing Between Cultures: Claude McKay and the Harlem Renaissance / Lisa Tomlinson ; "Blue Smoke" and "Stale Fried Fish": A Decadent View of Richard Bruce Nugent / Tiffany Austin ; Going Back to Work Through: The Return to Folk Origins in the Late Harlem Renaissance / Karl Henzy

Resources. Chronology of the Harlem Renaissance / Christopher Allen Varlack & Karl Henzy ; Works of the Harlem Renaissance ; Bibliography ; About the Editor ; Contributors ; Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781619258235

1619258234

OCLC:

930812971