The Harlem Renaissance 1920-1940
Analysis and Assessment, 1980-1994
1st Edition
Edited
By Cary D. Wintz
July 01, 1996
In the 1980s and early 1990s the scholarly analysis of the Harlem Renaissance became more sophisticated, reflecting increasing interest in the field of African American studies. This volume collects writings that reflect the major changes in the scholarship and the increased emphasis on the role of...
Black Writers Interpret the Harlem Renaissance
1st Edition
Edited
By Cary D. Wintz
July 01, 1996
First Published in 1996. One of the most interesting features of the Harlem Renaissance was the degree to which black writers and poets were involved in promoting and analyzing their own literary movement. One of its formative events was the 1926 attempt by Wallace Thurman, Langston Hughes and ...
The Politics and Aesthetics of New Negro Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Cary D. Wintz
July 01, 1996
Black writers and intellectuals struggled to articulate an aesthetic for African American literature and to define the appropriate relationship between an African American literary movement and the racial politics of the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. This volume contains examples of the ...
Remembering the Harlem Renaissance
1st Edition
Edited
By Cary D. Wintz
June 01, 1996
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 journal Phylon , and many of those also appear in this collection....