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A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance


A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance


Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture 1. Aufl.

von: Cherene Sherrard-Johnson

139,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 26.05.2015
ISBN/EAN: 9781118494158
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 496

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<p><i>A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance</i> presents a comprehensive collection of original essays that address the literature and culture of the Harlem Renaissance from the end of World War I to the middle of the 1930s.</p> <ul> <li>Represents the most comprehensive coverage of themes and unique new perspectives on the Harlem Renaissance available</li> <li>Features original contributions from both emerging scholars of the Harlem Renaissance and established academic “stars” in the field</li> <li>Offers a variety of interdisciplinary features, such as the section on visual and expressive arts, that emphasize the collaborative nature of the era</li> <li>Includes “Spotlight Readings” featuring lesser known figures of the Harlem Renaissance and newly discovered or undervalued writings by canonical figures       </li> </ul>
<p>Notes on Contributors ix</p> <p>Introduction: Harlem as Shorthand: The Persistent Value of the Harlem Renaissance 1<br /><i>Cherene Sherrard-Johnson</i></p> <p><b>Part I Foundations 15</b></p> <p>1 What Renaissance?: A Deep Genealogy of Black Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York City 17<br /><i>Carla L. Peterson</i></p> <p>2 Postbellum, Pre-Harlem: Black Writing before the Renaissance 35<br /><i>Andreá N. Williams</i></p> <p>3 Harlem Nights: Expressive Culture, Popular Performance, and the New Negro 51<br /><i>Jayna Brown</i></p> <p>4 The New Negro and the New South 65<br /><i>Erin D. Chapman</i></p> <p><b>Part II Spotlight: Readings and Genre 81</b></p> <p>5 “All the loving words I never dared to speak”: Angelina Weld Grimké’s Sapphic Modernism 83<br /><i>Maureen Honey</i></p> <p>6 Modernism and the Urban Frontier in the Work of Dorothy West and Helene Johnson 103<br /><i>Cynthia Davis and Verner D. Mitchell</i></p> <p>7 Blueprints for Negro Reading: Sterling Brown’s Study Guides 119<br /><i>Sonya Posmentier</i></p> <p>8 Fashioning Internationalism in Jessie Redmon Fauset’s Writing 137<br /><i>Elizabeth M. Sheehan</i></p> <p>9 The New Negro Iconoclast, or, The Curious Case of George Samuel Schuyler 155<br /><i>Ivy G. Wilson</i></p> <p>10 Nella Larsen’s Spiritual Strivings 171<br /><i>Kathy L. Glass</i></p> <p>11 Pastoral and the Problem of Place in Claude McKay’s Harlem Shadows 187<br /><i>Jennifer Chang</i></p> <p>12 Gwendolyn Bennett: A Leading Voice of the Harlem Renaissance 203<br /><i>Belinda Wheeler</i></p> <p>13 Reconsidering the Literary Career of Chicago’s Zara Wright 219<br /><i>Rynetta Davis</i></p> <p>14 “Betwixt and between”: Zora Neale Hurston In—and Out—of Harlem 231<br /><i>Carla Kaplan</i></p> <p><b>Part III Salon Culture: The Visual, Performative, and Expressive Arts 249</b></p> <p>15 Salon Cultures and Spaces of Culture Edification 251<br /><i>André m. Carrington</i></p> <p>16 The Sensuous Harlem Renaissance: Sexuality and Queer Culture 267<br /><i>Shane Vogel</i></p> <p>17 Changing Optics: Harlem Renaissance Theater and Performance 285<br /><i>Soyica Diggs Colbert</i></p> <p>18 Phonography, Race Records, and the Blues Poetry of Langston Hughes 301<br /><i>Lisa Hollenbach</i></p> <p>19 Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Sculpture of the Harlem Renaissance 317<br /><i>Kirsten Pai Buick</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Interracialism 337</b></p> <p>20 Authenticity and the Boundaries of Blackness 339<br /><i>J. Martin Favor</i></p> <p>21 Black Marxism and the Literary Left 351<br /><i>Gary Edward Holcomb</i></p> <p>22 “Light, bright and damn near white”: Representations of Mixed Race in the Harlem Renaissance 369<br /><i>Michele Elam</i></p> <p><b>Part V Beyond Harlem: New Geographies and Lasting Influences 385</b></p> <p>23 The Aesthetics of Anticipation: The Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement 387<br /><i>Margo Natalie Crawford</i></p> <p>24 The “Lost Years” or a “Decade of Progress”?: African American Writers and the Second World War 403<br /><i>Vaughn Rasberry</i></p> <p>25 Ethiopia in the Verse of the Late Harlem Renaissance 423<br /><i>Nadia Nurhussein</i></p> <p>26 Mapping the Harlem Renaissance in the Americas 441<br /><i>Michael Soto</i></p> <p>27 Virtual Harlem: Experiencing the New Negro Renaissance 457<br /><i>Bryan Carter</i></p> <p>Index 473</p>
<b>Cherene Sherrard-Johnson</b> is the Sally Mead Hands-Bascom Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of <i>Dorothy West’s Paradise: A Biography of Class and Color</i> (2012), <i>Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance</i> (2007), and the annotated edition of Jessie Redmon Fauset’s <i>Comedy: American Style</i> (2011).
With its epicenter in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood, the Harlem Renaissance was a singularly<br />influential period of African American history. A cultural revolution that combined artistic expression<br />with political activism, the movement would help to heighten social consciousness and foster racial pride.<br />A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance presents a comprehensive guide to the literature and culture of<br />the unprecedented artistic flourishing that took place in the African diasporic community of the United<br />States from the end of World War I to the middle of the 1930s. Featuring original contributions from eminent and emerging scholars of the era, chapters critically explore numerous themes relating to the origins, evolution, aesthetics, genres, and historical contexts of the Harlem Renaissance. Combining primary texts and contemporaneous accounts with innovative new perspectives, initial essays explore the historic and philosophical underpinnings of the “New Negro” Movement, followed by selections addressing canonical authors and minor writers who emerged during the period. Further essays examine salon culture and the influence of music and dance on literature; themes relating to race, identity, and sexual politics; and the Harlem Renaissance as a global movement. A final series of essays considers the enduring influence of the Harlem Renaissance in the latter twentieth century and into the new millennium. Combining a remarkable breadth of coverage with impeccable scholarship presented in an engaging manner, A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance is an essential resource to understanding this<br />transformative time in black history.

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