A Companion To The Harlem Renaissance

Author : Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118494148
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance written by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance presents acomprehensive collection of original essays that address theliterature and culture of the Harlem Renaissance from the end ofWorld War I to the middle of the 1930s. Represents the most comprehensive coverage of themes and uniquenew perspectives on the Harlem Renaissance available Features original contributions from both emerging scholars ofthe Harlem Renaissance and established academic “stars”in the field Offers a variety of interdisciplinary features, such as thesection on visual and expressive arts, that emphasize thecollaborative nature of the era Includes “Spotlight Readings” featuring lesserknown figures of the Harlem Renaissance and newly discovered orundervalued writings by canonicalfigures

Author : George Hutchinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521673686
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance written by George Hutchinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-14 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2007 Companion is a comprehensive guide to the key authors and works of the African American literary movement.

Author : Cheryl A. Wall
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253114985
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women of the Harlem Renaissance written by Cheryl A. Wall and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1995-09-22 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wall's writing is lively and exuberant. She passes her enthusiasm for these writers' works on to the reader. She captures the mood of the times and follows through with the writers' evolution -- sometimes to success, other times to isolation.... Women of the Harlem Renaissance is a rare blend of thorough academic research with writing that anyone can appreciate." -- Jason Zappe, Copley News Service "By connecting the women to one another, to the cultural movement in which they worked, and to other early 20th-century women writers, Wall deftly defines their place in American literature. Her biographical and literary analysis surpasses others by following up on diverse careers that often ended far past the end of the movement. Highly recommended... "Â -- Library Journal "Wall offers a wealth of information and insight on their work, lives and interaction with other writers... strong critiques... " -- Publishers Weekly The lives and works of women artists in the Harlem Renaissance -- Jessie Redmon Fauset, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Bessie Smith, and others. Their achievements reflect the struggle of a generation of literary women to depict the lives of Black people, especially Black women, honestly and artfully.

Author : Nathan Irvin Huggins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harlem renaissance written by Nathan Irvin Huggins and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alex Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139827642
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry written by Alex Davis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-19 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion offers the most comprehensive overview available of modernist poetry, its forms, its major authors and its contexts. The first part explores the historical and cultural contexts and sexual politics of literary modernism and the avant garde. The chapters in the second part concentrate on individual authors and movements, while the concluding part offers a comprehensive overview of the early reception and subsequent canonisation of modernist poetry. As well as insightful readings of canonical poets, the Companion features extended discussions of poets whose importance is now being increasingly recognised, such as Mina Loy, poets of the Harlem Renaissance, and postcolonial poets in the Caribbean, Africa and India. While modernist poets are often thought of as difficult, these essays will help students to understand and enjoy their experimental, playful and fascinating responses to contemporary social and cultural change and their dialogue with the arts and with each other.

Author : Harvey Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009359584
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre written by Harvey Young and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition provides an expanded, comprehensive history of African American theatre, from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Including discussions of slave rebellions on the national stage, African Americans on Broadway, the Harlem Renaissance, African American women dramatists, and the New Negro and Black Arts movements, the Companion also features fresh chapters on significant contemporary developments, such as the influence of the Black Lives Matter movement, the mainstream successes of Black Queer Drama and the evolution of African American Dance Theatre. Leading scholars spotlight the producers, directors, playwrights, and actors who have fashioned a more accurate appearance of Black life on stage, revealing the impact of African American theatre both within the United States and around the world. Addressing recent theatre productions in the context of political and cultural change, it invites readers to reflect on where African American theatre is heading in the twenty-first century.

Author : Belinda Wheeler
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271082585
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond written by Belinda Wheeler and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet, columnist, artist, and fiction writer Gwendolyn Bennett is considered by many to have been one of the youngest leaders of the Harlem Renaissance and a strong advocate for racial pride and the rights of African American women. Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond presents key selections of her published and unpublished writings and artwork in one volume. From poems, short stories, and reviews to letters, journal entries, and art, this collection showcases Bennett’s diverse and insightful body of work and rightfully places her alongside her contemporaries in the Harlem Renaissance—figures such as Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen. It includes selections from her monthly column “The Ebony Flute,” published in Opportunity, the magazine of the National Urban League, as well as newly uncovered post-1928 work that proves definitively that Bennett continued writing throughout the following two decades. Bennett’s correspondence with canonical figures from the period, her influence on Harlem arts institutions, and her political writings, reviews, and articles show her deep connection to and lasting influence on the movement that shaped her early career. An indispensable introduction to one of the era’s most prolific and passionate minds, this reevaluation of Bennett’s life and work deepens our understanding of the Harlem Renaissance and enriches the world of American letters. It will be of special value to scholars and readers interested in African American literature and art and American history and cultural studies.

Author : Trudier Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harlem Renaissance written by Trudier Harris and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brenda Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521576802
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights written by Brenda Murphy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the work of women playwrights throughout the history of the American theatre, from the early pioneers to contemporary feminists. Each chapter introduces the reader to the work of one or more playwrights and to a way of thinking about plays. Together they cover significant writers such as Rachel Crothers, Susan Glaspell, Lillian Hellman, Sophie Treadwell, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, Megan Terry, Ntozake Shange, Adrienne Kennedy, Wendy Wasserstein, Marsha Norman, Beth Henley and Maria Irene Fornes. Playwrights are discussed in the context of topics such as early comedy and melodrama, feminism and realism, the Harlem Renaissance, the feminist resurgence of the 1970s and feminist dramatic theory. A detailed chronology and illustrations enhance the volume, which also includes bibliographical essays on recent criticism and on African-American women playwrights before 1930.

Author : Sabina G. Arora
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1680480456
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance written by Sabina G. Arora and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Away from the bustling nightlife of 1920s Harlem, a literary and cultural rebirth was taking place among African American writers, artists, and performers. Producing works that reflected the racial realities of the era between the end of the Civil War and the beginnings of the civil rights movement, these cultural luminaries helped define a new black consciousness. Readers will learn how the Great Migration and changing opportunities for African Americans informed the vibrant creative period known as the Harlem Renaissance. Bridging social and literary history, this volume provides an interdisciplinary overview and serves as a companion to multiple subject areas.