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Title:

The Cambridge companion to the Harlem Renaissance / edited by George Hutchinson.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xx, 272 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
African Americans in literature.
African American aesthetics.
Harlem Renaissance.

Other Authors:

Hutchinson, George, 1953-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-264) and index.

Contents:

Index. Chronology / Lawrence Jackson -- Introduction / George Hutchinson -- 16. "The Foundations of the Harlem Renaissance -- 1. The New Negro as citizen / Jeffrey C. Stewart -- 2. The Renaissance and the Vogue / Emily Bernard -- 3. International contexts of the Negro Renaissance / Michael A. Chaney -- pt. 2. Major authors and texts -- 4. Negro drama and the Harlem Renaissance / David Krasner -- 5. Jean Toomer and the Avant-Garde / Mark Whalan -- 6. "To Tell the Truth About Us" : the fictions and non-fictions of Jessie Fauset and Walter White / Cheryl A. Wall -- 7. African American folk roots and Harlem Renaissance poetry / Mark A. Sanders -- 8. Lyric stars : Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes / James Smethurst -- 9. "Perhaps Buddha Is a Woman" : Women's poetry in the Harlem Renaissance / Margo Natalie Crawford -- 10. Transgressive sexuality and the literature of the Harlem Renaissance / A.B. Christa Schwarz -- 11. Sexual desire, modernity and modernism in the fiction of Nella Larsen and Rudolph Fisher / Charles Scruggs -- 12. Banjo meets the Dark Princess : Claude McKay, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the transnational novel of the Harlem Renaissance / William J. Maxwell -- 13. The Caribbean voices of Claude McKay and Eric Walrond / Carl Pedersen -- 14. George Schuyler and Wallace Thurman : two satirists of the Harlem Renaissance / J. Martin Favor -- 15. Zora Neale Hurston, folk performance, and the "Margarine Negro" / Carla Kaplan -- pt. 3. The Post-Renaissance -- 16. "The Aftermath" : the reputation of the Harlem Renaisance twenty years later / Lawrence Jackson -- Guide to further reading -- Index.

ISBN:

9780521673686 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0521673682 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780521856997 (hbk. : alk. paper)
052185699X (hbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)76820949

LCCN:

2006039244

Locations:

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

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

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)