Remembering the Harlem Renaissance

by Wintz,Cary D.; Wintz,Cary D.

• ISBN13: 9780815322160
• ISBN10: 081532216X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-06-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume tracks the many surveys of black literature created during the Harlem Renaissance. Noted works by such authors as Sterling Brown, Benjamin Brawley, and Langston Hughes are covered. Retrospectives also appeared in the journalPhylon, and many of those also appear in this collection.

Table of Contents

Series Introduction
Volume Introduction
Excerpt from The Negro Genius: A New Appraisal of the Achievement of the American Negro in Literature and the Fine Arts	p. 2
Excerpt from The Negro in American Fiction	p. 87
Excerpt from Negro Poetry and Drama	p. 108
Some Practical Observations: A Colloquy	p. 131
Criticism at Mid-Century	p. 136
Negro Poets, Then and Now	p. 147
Phylon Profile, XXII: Carl Van Vechten	p. 154
The Negro Writer - Shadow and Substance	p. 161
Self-Criticism: The Third Dimension in Culture	p. 165
The Negro Writer: Pitfalls and Compensations	p. 169
New Poets	p. 177
The Historical Setting of The New Negro	p. 188
The New Negro Middle Class	p. 196
The New Negro in Literature (1925-1955)	p. 203
The New Negro and the New Deal	p. 219
The Negro Renaissance and Its Significance	p. 226
The Awakening: A Memoir	p. 235
Under the Harlem Shadow: A Study of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen	p. 261
Portrait of Wallace Thurman	p. 289
Zora Neale Hurston and the Eatonville Anthropology	p. 314
Charles S. Johnson: Entrepreneur of the Harlem Renaissance	p. 339
Frank Horne and the Second Echelon Poets of the Harlem Renaissance	p. 371
Harlem Literati in the Twenties	p. 393
My Early Days in Harlem	p. 395
The Negro Author and His Publisher	p. 399
The Negro Author: His Publisher, His Public and His Purse	p. 414
Alain Locke's Relationship to the Negro in American Literature	p. 420
The Literature of the Negro in the United States	p. 428
Acknowledgments	p. 461
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