A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance

A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance 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. Represents the most comprehensive coverage of themes and unique new perspectives on the Harlem Renaissance available Features original contributions from both emerging scholars of the Harlem Renaissance and established academic stars in the field Offers a variety of interdisciplinary features, such as the section on visual and expressive arts, that emphasize the collaborative nature of the era Includes Spotlight Readings featuring lesser known figures of the Harlem Renaissance and newly discovered or undervalued writings by canonical figures        INDICE: Notes on Contributors .I. Foundations .1 What Renaissance?: A Deep Genealogy of Black Culture Life in Nineteenth–Century New York CityCarla Peterson .2 Postbellum, Pre–Harlem: Black Writing Before the RenaissanceAndrea Williams .3 Harlem Nights: Expressive Culture, Popular Performance and the New NegroJayna Brown .4 The New Negro and the New South .Erin Chapman .II. Spotlight: Readings and Genre .5 All the loving words I never dared to speak : Angelina Weld Grimke s Sapphic ModernismMaureen Honey .6 Modernism and the New Frontier in the Work of Dorothy West and Helene JohnsonVerner Mitchell and Cynthia Davis .7 Blueprints for Negro Reading: Sterling Brown s Study GuidesSonya Posmentier .8 Fashioning Internationalism in Jessie Redmon Fauset s WritingLily Sheehan .9 The New Negro Iconoclast, or the Curious Case of George Samuel SchuylerIvy G. Wilson .10 Nella Larsen s Spiritual StrivingsKathy Glass .11 Pastoral and the Problem of Place in Claude McKay s Harlem ShadowsJennifer Chang .12 Gwendolyn Bennett: A Leading Voice of the Harlem RenaissanceBelinda Wheeler .13 Reconsidering the Literary Career of Chicago s Zara WrightRynetta Davis .14 Betwixt and Between : Zora Neale Hurston In and Out of HarlemCarla Kaplan .III. Salon Culture: the Visual, Performative, and Expressive Arts .15 Salon Cultures and Spaces of Culture EdificationAndré M. Carrington .16 The Sensuous Harlem Renaissance: Sexuality and Queer CultureShane Vogel .17 Changing Optics: Harlem Renaissance Theater and PerformanceSoyica Diggs Colbert .18 Phonography, Race Records and the Blues Poetry of Langston HughesLisa Hollenbach .19 Between A Rock and a Hard Place: Sculpture of the Harlem RenaissanceKirsten Pai Buick .IV. Interracialism .20 Authenticity and the Boundaries of BlacknessJ. Martin Favor .21 Black Marxism and the Literary LeftGary Holcomb .22 Light, Bright and Damn Near White : Representations of Mixed Race in the Harlem RenaissanceMichele Elam .V. Beyond Harlem: New Geographies and Lasting Influences .23 The Aesthetics of Anticipation: The Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts MovementMargo Crawford .24 The Lost Years or a Decade of Progress ? African American Writers and the Second World WarVaughn Rasberry .25 Ethiopia in the Verse of the Late Harlem RenaissanceNadia Nurhussein .26 Mapping the Harlem Renaissance in the AmericasMichael Soto .27 Experiencing the Harlem RenaissanceBryan Carter

• ISBN: 978-1-118-49406-6
• Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 512
• Fecha Publicación: 26/06/2015
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés