Research Catalog

Title

Harlem Renaissance / editor, Christopher Allen Varlack, Loyola University.

Publication

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2015]

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Details

Additional Authors

Varlack, Christopher Allen

Description

xxx, 335 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"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. Each essay is 2,500 to 5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with a list of "Works Cited," along with endnotes. Finally, the volume's appendixes offer a section of useful reference resources."--Publisher website.

Series Statement

Critical insights

Uniform Title

Critical insights.

Subjects

• American literature > African American authors
• African American authors
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century
• 1900 - 1999
• Harlem Renaissance
• Passing (Identity) in literature
• Race in literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• African American authors > 20th century
• Intellectual life
• New York (State) > New York > Harlem
• American literature > African American authors > 20th century > History and criticism
• African American women in literature
• African Americans > Race identity > In literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Edition statement supplied by publisher.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The Harlem Renaissance: The New Negro Intellectual and the Poetry of the Sociopolitical Imagination / Christopher Allen Varlack -- Critical Contexts. Dawn in Harlem: Exploring the Origins of the Harlem Renaissance through Image and Text / Carolyn Kyler ; Apathetic Critiques Revisited: Jean Toomer's Cane and Its Importance to the Harlem Renaissance / Geraldo Del Guercio ; Sugar Cane and Women's Identity in Selected Works of Zora Neale Hurston / Allyson Denise Marino ; Mobile Subjects in Faulkner, Larsen, and Thurman: Racial Parody and the White Northern Literary Field / Cheryl Lester -- Critical Readings. The New Negro: The Politics and Aesthetics of the Harlem Renaissance. "Hectic Rhythms": Unseen and Unappreciated Knowledge in Harlem Renaissance Fiction / Jericho Williams ; Toward a Theory of Art as Propaganda: Re-Evaluating the Political Novels of the Harlem Renaissance / Christopher Allen Varlack ; "The Bitter River": Langston Hughes and the Violent South / Seretha D. Williams -- Across the Color Line: Racial Passing and the Harlem Renaissance. Racial Connections in "Time Space": A Chronotopic Approach to Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man / Holly Simpson Fling ; Framing Racial Identity and Class: Magnifying Themes of Assimilation and Passing in the Works of Johnson and Hughes / Charlotte Teague ; "Why Hadn't She Spoken That Day?": The Destructive Power of Racial Silence in Nella Larsen's Passing / Holly T. Baker ; Just Passing Through: The Harlem Renaissance Woman on the Move / Joshua M. Murray -- Black Woman/Black Mother: Toward a Theory of the New Negro Woman. Grimké's Sentimentalism in Rachel: Subversion as an Act of Feminism / Lisa Elwood-Farber ; Where is that "Ark uv Safty"? Tracing the Role of the Black Woman as Protector in Georgia Douglas Johnson's Plays / Brandon L.A. Hutchinson ; "Don't knock at my door, little child": The Mantled Poetics of Georgia Douglas Johnson's Motherhood Poetry / Michelle J. Pinkard -- The New Negro Revisited: New Readings of the Harlem Renaissance. Writing Across the Color Line: Carl Van Vechten's Nigger Heaven and the Insatiable Hunger for Literature of Black American Life / Christopher Allen Varlack ; Dancing Between Cultures: Claude McKay and the Harlem Renaissance / Lisa Tomlinson ; "Blue Smoke" and "Stale Fried Fish": A Decadent View of Richard Bruce Nugent / Tiffany Austin ; Going Back to Work Through: The Return to Folk Origins in the Late Harlem Renaissance / Karl Henzy -- Resources. Chronology of the Harlem Renaissance / Christopher Allen Varlack & Karl Henzy ; Works of the Harlem Renaissance ; Bibliography ; About the Editor ; Contributors ; Index.

Call Number

Sc E 16-919

ISBN

• 9781619258228
• 1619258226

OCLC

922373371

Title

Harlem Renaissance / editor, Christopher Allen Varlack, Loyola University.

Publisher

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2015]

Edition

[First edition].

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Critical insights

Critical insights.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900 - 1999

Added Author

Varlack, Christopher Allen, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 16-919