This two-volume encyclopedia provides a comprehensive exploration of the Harlem Renaissance, a period of heightened racial consciousness and artistic production, highlighting artists, historical figures, and writers while providing crucial ...
This volume examines the defining themes and styles of African-American literature during this period, which laid the groundwork for contemporary African-American writers.
Anderson was married in 1943 to the artist and architect Orpheus H. “ King ” Fisher . ... Raimund von zur Mühlen , Mark Raphael , Amanda Ira Aldrich , Michael Raucheisen , Sverre Jordan , Madame Charles Cahier , and Steffi Rupp .
Discusses the creation of the Harlem Renaissance, the African Americans in the spotlight there, and the legacy of future generations long after its heyday.
Musically speaking , the Jook is the most important place in America . For in its smelly , shoddy confines has been born the secular music known as blues , and on blues has been founded jazz . The singing and playing in the true Negro ...
Langston Hughes , " Claude McKay : The Best , " draft of an article for American Negro Writers , in Langston Hughes Papers , James Weldon Johnson Collection , Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library , Yale University . 58.
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Harlem Speaks showcases the lives and works of the artists, writers and intellectuals behind the stunning outburst of African American culture in the three decades after World War I. In...
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.
In this Very Short Introduction, Cheryl A. Wall captures the Harlem Renaissance's zeitgeist by identifying issues and strategies that engaged writers, musicians, and visual artists alike.
This book offers an insightful study of the significance of passing novels for the literary and intellectual debate of the Harlem Renaissance.