A History of the Harlem Renaissance

A History of the Harlem Renaissance
ISBN-10
1108640508
ISBN-13
9781108640503
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
453
Language
English
Published
2021-02-04
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Authors
Rachel Farebrother, Miriam Thaggert

Description

The Harlem Renaissance was the most influential single movement in African American literary history. The movement laid the groundwork for subsequent African American literature, and had an enormous impact on later black literature world-wide. In its attention to a wide range of genres and forms – from the roman à clef and the bildungsroman, to dance and book illustrations – this book seeks to encapsulate and analyze the eclecticism of Harlem Renaissance cultural expression. It aims to re-frame conventional ideas of the New Negro movement by presenting new readings of well-studied authors, such as Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, alongside analysis of topics, authors, and artists that deserve fuller treatment. An authoritative collection on the major writers and issues of the period, A History of the Harlem Renaissance takes stock of nearly a hundred years of scholarship and considers what the future augurs for the study of 'the New Negro'.

Other editions

Similar books