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Title:

A history of the Harlem Renaissance / edited by Rachel Farebrother, Miriam Thaggert.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

xix, 432 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

1900-1999
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
African American arts--20th century.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
Harlem Renaissance.
African American arts.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
American literature.
American literature--African American authors.
Harlem Renaissance.
Intellectual life.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
New York (State)--Harlem.--Harlem.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Other Authors:

Farebrother, Rachel, editor.
Thaggert, Miriam, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 <U+fffd>a Clef of the Harlem Renaissance / Sin<U+fffd>ead 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.

Summary:

"Essays such as W. E. B. Du Bois's "Criteria of Negro Art," Langston Hughes's "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," and George Schuyler' "The Negro-Art Hokum"--which make respective cases for art as propaganda, the cultural distinctiveness of black American art, and the absence of any fundamental differences between black and white American art--lay bare some of the key disagreements that continue to animate debates about the politics of representation. Marita Bonner's 1925 Crisis essay "On Being Young, a Woman, and Colored," with its eloquent insistence that any examination of the relationship between art and politics must attend to questions of sexuality and gender, anticipates critical approaches developed by pioneering black feminists, including Barbara Christian, Akasha (Gloria) Hull, Deborah E. McDowell, Claudia Tate, and Cheryl A. Wall, from the 1970s. Indeed, an enduring tendency to sideline Bonner and other black women writers in critical accounts of Harlem Renaissance debates about "art or propaganda" signals the continuing salience of the black feminist project of "engendering the Harlem Renaissance [by] undoing perimeters that exclude women and their writing""-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1108493572
9781108493574

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1201663722

LCCN:

2020042849

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)