| Description |
x, 392 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-378) and index. |
| Contents |
"Temples for tomorrow" : introductory essay / Genevive Fabre and Michel Feith -- Racial doubt and racial shame in the Harlem Renaissance / Arnold Rampersad -- Syncopated African : constructions of origins in the Harlem Renaissance (literature, music, visual arts) / Michel Feith -- Oh Africa! The influence of African art during the Harlem Renaissance / Amy H. Kirschke -- Florence B. Price's "Negro symphony" / Rae Linda Brown -- Ethel Waters : the voice of an era / Randall Cherry -- Oscar Micheaux and the Harlem Renaissance / Clyde Taylor -- Tragedy and the joke : James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man / Alessandro Portelli -- "Spell of Africa is upon me" : W.E.B. DuBois's notion of art as propaganda / Alessandra Lorini -- Subject to disappearance : interracial identity in Nella Larsen's Quicksand / George Hutchinson -- No free gifts : Toomer's "Fern" and the Harlem Renaissance / William Boelhower -- Harlem as a memory place : reconstructing the Harlem Renaissance in space / Dorothea Lbbermann -- "Basin in the mind" : language in Their Eyes Were Watching God / Claudine Raynaud -- Langston Hughes's blues / Monica Michlin -- Tropics in New York : Claude McKay and the new Negro movement / Carl Pedersen -- West Indian presence in Alain Locke's The New Negro (1925) / Franoise Charras -- Three ways to translate the Harlem Renaissance / Brent Hayes Edwards -- Harlem Renaissance abroad : French critics and the new Negro literary movement (1924-1964) / Michel Fabre. |
| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism.
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African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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African American arts -- New York (State) -- New York.
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African Americans in literature.
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Harlem Renaissance.
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| Added Author |
Fabre, Genevieve.
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Feith, Michel, 1966-
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| ISBN |
0253214254 (pa : alk. paper) |
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0253328861 (alk. paper) |
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