Teaching the Harlem Renaissance : Course Design and Classroom Strategies

by Soto, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781433103919
• ISBN10: 1433103915
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-01
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Summary

Teaching the Harlem Renaissance: Course Design and Classroom Strategies addresses the practical and theoretical needs of college and high school instructors offering a unit or a full course on the Harlem Renaissance. In this collection many of the

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Timeline
Teaching the Harlem Renaissance	p. 1
The Harlem Renaissance in Context
The Renaissance's Harlem: Representing Race and Place	p. 13
Literary Retrospection in the Harlem Renaissance	p. 29
Harlem Polemics, Harlem Aesthetics	p. 37
Visual Art of the Harlem Renaissance	p. 47
Harlem and the New Woman	p. 63
On Teaching a Black Queer Harlem Renaissance	p. 75
Teaching Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance	p. 83
Harlem Renaissance Writers and Texts
Teaching Sterling Brown's Poetry	p. 97
Teaching Countee Cullen's Poetry	p. 103
Teaching Jessie Fauset's Plum Bun	p. 115
Teaching Waldo Frank's Holiday	p. 123
Teaching Langston Hughes's Poetry	p. 131
Teaching Langston Hughes's The Ways of White Folks	p. 137
Teaching James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man	p. 145
Teaching Nella Larsen's Quicksand	p. 153
Teaching Claude McKay's Home to Harlem	p. 161
Teaching The New Negro	p. 169
Teaching George S. Schuyler's Black No More	p. 177
Teaching Wallace Thurman's Infants of the Spring	p. 187
Teaching Jean Toomer's Cane	p. 193
Teaching Carl Van Vechten's Nigger Heaven	p. 201
Teaching Edward Christopher Williams's When Washington Was in Vogue	p. 209
Supplemental Material
Historical Maps of Harlem	p. 219
Harlem Renaissance Syllabi	p. 221
A Bibliography for Teaching the Harlem Renaissance	p. 225
Contributors	p. 233
Index	p. 239
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