Critical Insights: Harlem Renaissance

Publisher Salem Press

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Salem Press

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Copyright

2015

ISBN13

9781619258235

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eBook

Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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Overview

The Harlem Renaissance represented an explosion of African American literature, drama, music, and visual art in 1920s America, with such notable figures as Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, and many more leading the charge. 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.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About This Volume.
The Harlem Renaissance: The New Negro Intellectual and the Poetry of the Sociopolitical Imagination.
Critical Contexts.
1: Dawn in Harlem: Exploring the Origins of the Harlem Renaissance through Image and Text.
2: Apathetic Critiques Revisited: Jean Toomer's Cane and Its Importance to the Harlem Renaissance.
3: Sugar Cane and Women's Identity in Selected Works of Zora Neale Hurston.
4: Mobile Subjects in Faulkner, Larsen, and Thurman: Racial Parody and the White Northern Literary Field.
Critical Readings.
5: “Hectic Rhythms”: Unseen and Unappreciated Knowledge in Harlem Renaissance Fiction.
6: Toward a Theory of Art as Propaganda: Re- Evaluating the Political Novels of the Harlem Renaissance.
7: “The Bitter River”: Langston Hughes and the Violent South.
8: Racial Connections in “Time Space”: A Chronotopic Approach to Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.
9: Framing Racial Identity and Class: Magnifying Themes of Assimilation and Passing in the Works of Johnson and Hughes.
10: “Why Hadn't She Spoken That Day?”: The Destructive Power of Racial Silence in Nella Larsen's Passing.
11: Just Passing Through: The Harlem Renaissance Woman on the Move.
12: Grimké's Sentimentalism in Rachel: Subversion as an Act of Feminism.
13: “Where is that “Ark uv Safty”? Tracing the Role of the Black Woman as Protector in Georgia Douglas Johnson's Plays.
14: “Don't knock at my door, little child”: The Mantled Poetics of Georgia Douglas Johnson's Motherhood Poetry.
15: Writing Across the Color Line: Carl Van Vechten's Nigger Heaven and the Insatiable Hunger for Literature of Black American Life.
16: Dancing Between Cultures: Claude McKay and the Harlem Renaissance.
17: “Blue Smoke” and &#x
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