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Women of the Harlem renaissance / Cheryl A. Wall.
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TextSeries: Women of letters (Bloomington, Ind.)Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1995]Copyright date: ©1995Description: xx, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0253329086
- 9780253329080
- 0253209803
- 9780253209801
- Fauset, Jessie Redmon -- Criticism and interpretation
- Hurston, Zora Neale -- Criticism and interpretation
- Larsen, Nella -- Criticism and interpretation
- American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- African American women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life
- African American women in literature
- African Americans in literature
- Harlem Renaissance
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life
- 810/.9/896073 20
- PS153.N5 W33 1995
- 18.06
- 17.71
- 17.97
- Also issued online.
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Putney School Library | Putney School Library | Nonfiction | 810.9 WAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Claude Winfield Afro American Collection | 35346000234373 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-238) and index.
Foreword / by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar. -- Prologue: a note on the journey. -- On being young, a woman, and colored: when Harlem was in vogue. -- Jessie Redmon Fauset: traveling in place. -- Nella Larsen: passing for what? -- Zora Neale Hurston's traveling blues. -- Epilogue: destinations deferred. -- Selected bibliography of writings by women of the Harlem Renaissance.
Features chapters on Jessie Redmon Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston and Nella Larsen. Also discusses other artists including Josephine Baker, Gwendolyn Bennett, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Charlotte Mason, Bessie Smith, Anne Spencer, and Jean Toomer.
Also issued online.
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