Research Catalog

Title

Temples for tomorrow : looking back at the Harlem Renaissance / edited by Geneviève Fabre and Michel Feith.

Publication

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2001.

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Additional Authors

• Fabre, Geneviève.
• Feith, Michel, 1966-

Description

x, 392 p. : ill., music; 24 cm.

Subject

• American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
• American literature > New York (State) > New York > History and criticism
• African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Intellectual life
• American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• African American arts > New York (State) > New York
• African Americans in literature
• Harlem Renaissance

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-378) and index.

Contents

"Temples for tomorrow": introductory essay / Genevïve Fabre and Michel Feith -- Racial doubt and racial shame in the Harlem Renaissance / Arnold Rampersad -- The 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 -- The tragedy and the joke: James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man / Alessandro Portelli -- "The 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 Lḇbermann -- "A basin in the mind": language in Their Eyes Were Watching God / Claudine Raynaud -- Langston Hughes's blues / Monica Michlin -- The tropics in New York: Claude McKay and the new Negro movement / Carl Pedersen -- The West Indian presence in Alain Locke's The New Negro (1925) / Franȯise Charras -- Three ways to translate the Harlem Renaissance / Brent Hayes Edwards -- The Harlem Renaissance abroad: French critics and the new Negro literary movement (1924-1964) / Michel Fabre.

Call Number

Sc E 01-1131

ISBN

• 0253328861 (alk. paper)
• 0253214254 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

00063426

OCLC

44811631

Title

Temples for tomorrow : looking back at the Harlem Renaissance / edited by Geneviève Fabre and Michel Feith.

Imprint

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2001.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-378) and index.

Added Author

Fabre, Geneviève.

Feith, Michel, 1966-

Research Call Number

Sc E 01-1131

JFE 02-5962