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Title The Harlem Renaissance / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Pub Info Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, [2004]
©2004
Description viii, 336 pages ; 25 cm.
LOCATION CALL NUMBER STATUS
 COLUMBIA Nonfiction  810.9896 HAR     AVAILABLE
Series Bloom's period studies
Bloom's period studies.
Contents Harlem Renaissance re-examined / Warrington Hudlin -- Shape and shapers of the movement / Margaret Perry -- Black-white symbiosis : another look at the literary history of the 1920s / Amritjit Singh -- Langston Hughes : evolution of the poetic persona / Raymond Smith -- "Refined racism" : white patronage in the Harlem Renaissance / Bruce Kellner -- Color, sex, and poetry in the Harlem Renaissance / Akasha Gloria Hull -- Black autobiography and the comic vision / Richard K. Barksdale -- Harlem and the first Black Renaissance / Eva Lennox Birch -- Reading the Harlem Renaissance / David Levering Lewis -- Black Manhattan / James Weldon Johnson -- New Negro / Alain Locke -- Negro Renaissance and its significance / Charles S. Johnson -- Pulse of the Negro world / Amy Helene Kirschke -- Negro author and his publisher / Sterling A. Brown -- Aspects of identity in Nella Larsen's novels / Cheryl A. Wall -- Survival and song : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance / Maureen Honey -- Iconography of the Harlem Renaissance / Patti Capel Swartz -- Toomer's Cane and the Harlem Renaissance / Geneviève Fabre -- Syncopated African / Michel Feith.
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-314) and index.
Summary Presents essays that document the origins and influence of the Harlem Renaissance, focusing on key writing figures and artists and the many challenges they faced.
Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
African Americans in literature.
Harlem Renaissance.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
American literature.
American literature -- African American authors.
Harlem Renaissance.
Intellectual life.
New York (State) -- New York -- Harlem.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
1900-1999