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 ix .Introduction: Harlem as Shorthand: The Persistent Value of the Harlem Renaissance 1Cherene Sherrard–Johnson .Part I Foundations 15 .1 What Renaissance?: A Deep Genealogy of Black Culture in Nineteenth–Century New York City 17Carla L. Peterson .2 Postbellum, Pre–Harlem: Black Writing before the Renaissance 35Andreá N. Williams .3 Harlem Nights: Expressive Culture, Popular Performance, and the New Negro 51Jayna Brown .4 The New Negro and the New South 65Erin D. Chapman .Part II Spotlight: Readings and Genre 81 .5 All the loving words I never dared to speak : Angelina Weld Grimké s Sapphic Modernism 83Maureen Honey .6 Modernism and the Urban Frontier in the Work of Dorothy West and Helene Johnson 103Cynthia Davis and Verner D. Mitchell .7 Blueprints for Negro Reading: Sterling Brown s Study Guides 119Sonya Posmentier .8 Fashioning Internationalism in Jessie Redmon Fauset s Writing 137Elizabeth M. Sheehan .9 The New Negro Iconoclast, or, The Curious Case of George Samuel Schuyler 155Ivy G. Wilson .10 Nella Larsen s Spiritual Strivings 171Kathy L. Glass .11 Pastoral and the Problem of Place in Claude McKay s Harlem Shadows 187Jennifer Chang .12 Gwendolyn Bennett: A Leading Voice of the Harlem Renaissance 203Belinda Wheeler .13 Reconsidering the Literary Career of Chicago s Zara Wright 219Rynetta Davis .14 Betwixt and between : Zora Neale Hurston In and Out of Harlem 231Carla Kaplan .Part III Salon Culture: The Visual, Performative, and Expressive Arts 249 .15 Salon Cultures and Spaces of Culture Edification 251André m. Carrington .16 The Sensuous Harlem Renaissance: Sexuality and Queer Culture 267Shane Vogel .17 Changing Optics: Harlem Renaissance Theater and Performance 285Soyica Diggs Colbert .18 Phonography, Race Records, and the Blues Poetry of Langston Hughes 301Lisa Hollenbach .19 Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Sculpture of the Harlem Renaissance 317Kirsten Pai Buick .Part IV Interracialism 337 .20 Authenticity and the Boundaries of Blackness 339J. Martin Favor .21 Black Marxism and the Literary Left 351Gary Edward Holcomb .22 Light, bright and damn near white : Representations of Mixed Race in the Harlem Renaissance 369Michele Elam .Part V Beyond Harlem: New Geographies and Lasting Influences 385 .23 The Aesthetics of Anticipation: The Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement 387Margo Natalie Crawford .24 The Lost Years or a Decade of Progress ?: African American Writers and the Second World War 403Vaughn Rasberry .25 Ethiopia in the Verse of the Late Harlem Renaissance 423Nadia Nurhussein .26 Mapping the Harlem Renaissance in the Americas 441Michael Soto .27 Virtual Harlem: Experiencing the New Negro Renaissance 457Bryan Carter .Index 473

• ISBN: 978-1-119-05453-5
• Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 496
• Fecha Publicación: 14/09/2017
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés