Harlem Renaissance
A milestone in the study of African-American life and culture, this classic history has been reissued with a new foreword by biographer Arnold Rampersad. As Rampersad notes, "Harlem Renaissance remains an indispensable guide to the facts and features, the puzzles and mysteries, of one of the most provocative episodes in African-American and American history." Indeed, Huggins offers a brilliant account of the creative explosion in Harlem during these pivotal years. Blending the fields of history…
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- Full title :Harlem Renaissance / Nathan Irvin Huggins ; with a new foreword by Arnold Rampersad.
Summary
A milestone in the study of African-American life and culture, this classic history has been reissued with a new foreword by biographer Arnold Rampersad. As Rampersad notes, "Harlem Renaissance remains an indispensable guide to the facts and features, the puzzles and mysteries, of one of the most provocative episodes in African-American and American history." Indeed, Huggins offers a brilliant account of the creative explosion in Harlem during these pivotal years. Blending the fields of history, literature, music, psychology, and folklore, he illuminates the thought and writing of such key figures as Alain Locke, James Weldon Johnson, and W.E.B. DuBois, and provides sharp-eyed analyses of the poetry of Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, and Langston Hughes. But the main objective for Huggins, throughout the book, is always to achieve a better understanding of America as a whole. He strives throughout to link the work of poets and novelists not only to artists working in other genres and media but also to economic, historical, and cultural forces in the culture at large. --From publisher description.
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- Publication Date:2007.
- Edition:Updated ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2007.
The Physical Object
- Description:xxxiii, 343 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780195063363, 0195063368, 9780199838943, 0199838941
- oclc:ocm81861281
- LC Classification:E185.6
- Dewey Decimal:305.5/520899607307471
Table of Contents
Harlem: capital of the Black world -- The new Negro -- Heart of darkness -- Art: the Black identity -- Art: the ethnic province -- White/ Black faces--Black masks.
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