The Harlem renaissance re-examined
Victor A. Kramer (Editor)
This collection of scholarly efforts to reexamine the artistic period of the Harlem Renaissance is divided into two parts: theory and questions; art and answers. The contributors seek to reevaluate the place in the canon of writers of such notables as Zora Neale Hurston and Rudolph Fisher; and present an interview with Dorothy West and an overview of black women playwrights. The volume also includes an essay on white patronage that provides new information about Louise Thompson's role as secretary to Hurston and Langston Hughes. ISBN 0-404-63202-5: $40.00
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780404632021, 0404632025
15630771
Introduction: The Harlem Renaissance Re-examined / Victor A. Kramer
Part 1. Theory and Questions: ; W.E.B. Du Bois and the Theory of a Black Asethetic / Darwin T. Turner ; Black-White Symbiosis : Another Look at the Literary History of the 1920's / Amritjit Singh ; The Outer Reaches : The White Writer and Blacks in the Twenties ; Richard A. Long ; In Pursuit of the Primitive : Black Portraits by Eugene O'Neill and other Village Bohemians / John Cooley ; Going to School to DuBose Heyard / William H. Slavick ; "Refinded Racism" : White Patronage in the Harlem Renaissance / Bruce Kellner ; Carl Van Vechten Present the New Negro / Leon Coleman ; "What Were They Saying"? : A Selected Overview of Black Women Playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance / Nellie Y. McKay ; Crab Antics and Jocob's Ladder : Aaron Douglas's Two Views of Nigger Heaven / Charles Scruggs
Part 2. Art and Answers: ; Jean Toomer and the South : Region and Race as Elements within a Literary Imagination / Charles T. Davis ; "The Canker Galls ...," or the Short Promising Life of Wallace Thurman / Daniel Walden ; Countee Cullen : A Key to the Puzzle / Michael Lomax ; "A Lack Somewhere" : Nella Lardsen's Quicksand and the Harlem Renaissance / Lillie P. Howard ; Langston Hughes : Evolution of the Poetic Persona / Raymond Smith ; A Fisher of Black Life : Short Stories by Rudolph Fisher / Margaret Perry ; Conversations with Dorothy West / Deborah E. McDowell ; Hurston, Humor, and the Harlem Renaissance / John Lowe ; Sterling A. Brown and the Afro-American Folk Tradition / Charles H. Rowell
Biography: The Harlem Renaissance : A Selected Biblography / Robert A. Russ
Index