Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance

Name: Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance
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ISBN: 9780521673686

ISBN-10: 0521673682

ISBN-13: 9780521673686

Edition: 2007

Authors: George Hutchinson

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The Harlem Renaissance (1918-1937) was the most influential single movement in African American literary history. Its key figures include W. E. B. Du Bois, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, and Langston Hughes. The movement laid the groundwork for all later African American literature, and had an enormous impact on later black literature world-wide. With chapters by a wide range of well-known scholars, this Companion is an authoritative and engaging guide to the movement. It first discusses the historical contexts of the Harlem Renaissance, both national and international; then presents original discussions of a wide array of authors and texts; and finally treats the…

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List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/14/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.144

George Hutchinson is Professor of English and Newton C. Farr Professor of American Culture at Cornell University.



Notes on contributors


Chronology



Introduction




Foundations of the Harlem Renaissance



The New Negro as citizen




The Renaissance and the Vogue




International contexts of the Negro Renaissance




Major Authors and Texts



Negro drama and the Harlem Renaissance




Jean Toomer and the avant-garde




"To tell the truth about us": the fictions and non-fictions of Jessie Fauset and Walter White




African American folk roots and Harlem Renaissance poetry




Lyric stars: Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes




"Perhaps Buddha is a woman": women's poetry in the Harlem Renaissance




Transgressive sexuality and the literature of the Harlem Renaissance




Sexual desire, modernity, and modernism in the fiction of Nella Larsen and Rudolph Fisher




Banjo meets the Dark Princess: Claude McKay, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the transnational novel of the Harlem Renaissance




The Caribbean voices of Claude McKay and Eric Walrond




George Schuyler and Wallace Thurman: two satirists of the Harlem Renaissance




Zora Neale Hurston, folk performance, and the "Margarine Negro"




The Post-Renaissance



"The Aftermath": the reputation of the Harlem Renaissance twenty years later



Guide to further reading


Index