Writing the Harlem Renaissance

Revisiting the Vision
Herausgeber: Williams, Emily Allen

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Produktbeschreibung

This study examines literary and cultural developments in the community of Harlem during its renaissance period in the 1920s. The contributors analyze the Harlem Renaissance from a number of angles by investigating the works of literary writers, journalists, and sociologists of the period and connect the era to present-day Harlem.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 364g
• ISBN-13: 9780739196809
• ISBN-10: 0739196804
• Artikelnr.: 47546924

Autorenporträt

Emily Allen Williams is dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of the Virgin Islands.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface, Emily Allen Williams Introduction, Reginald Martin Part I: Writing
the Harlem Renaissance: Spatial Representations and Memorandums of [Mis]
Understanding Chapter 1: The Greatest Joy in Life: Geraldyn Dismond's
Transformative Coverage of the Hamilton Lodge Ball, Jacqueline C. Jones
Chapter 2: Towards a Trans-Atlantic Approach: Tracing the Modernist
Psychodrama and Wasteland Critique-the Poetry of the Political Imagination,
Christopher Varlack Chapter 3: The Impact of the Harlem Renaissance on the
Development of the African American Voice within Literature, Mary Lynn
Chambers Part II: Blackness, Beauty, and Interracial Posturing:
Sociological and Literary Representations Chapter 4: DuBois and Larsen: The
Convergence of Contrasting Literary Genres, Imani Michelle Scott Chapter 5:
Jean Toomer's Cane in the Harlem Renaissance: Modernity, Individuality, and
Language, Gerardo Del Guercio Chapter 6: In Search of Our Mother's Dignity:
The Plight of African American Women in Selected Harlem Renaissance
Literature, Devona Mallory Chapter 7: Revisiting the "Mulatto" Stereotype
in Passing and The Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man, Antonia Iliadou