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From: Modernism on File: Writers, Artists, and the FBI, 1920-1950In the following essay, Gosciak details the attention devoted to McKay by the FBI as a result of his political commitments. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. [In the following essay, Gosciak details the...Found in Poetry Criticism
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 2. )The Harlem Renaissance was a time of great creativity for African Americans. W. E. B. DuBois and others hoped that the "talented tenth" of African Americans would be able to prove the intelligence and the creativity of...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: The Harlem Renaissance: RevaluationsIn the essay below, Ogren traces the influence of the jazz musical idiom on the other arts of the Harlem Renaissance, focusing especially on its shaping of the poetry of the period and its affirmation of the folk roots...Found in 20th Century Literature Criticism
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From: Boston University JournalKesteloot is a Belgian scholar who has written extensively on Negritude and African literature. In the following essay, she argues that the intellectual roots of Negritude can be traced to the works of such Afro-American...Found in 20th Century Literature Criticism
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From: The Harlem Renaissance: RevaluationsIn the following essay, which focuses on the controversy among writers and artists of the Harlem Renaissance over the morality, history, and aesthetics of jazz music, Ogren studies the works of several authors who...Found in 20th Century Literature Criticism
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From: Black ManhattanALLAN H. SPEAR (essay date 1968) Black Manhattan is a document of the 1920's-a celebration, with reservations, of both the artistic renaissance of the era and the dream of a black metropolis. Although set in a broader...Found in 20th Century Literature Criticism
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From: Down Home: A History of Afro-American Short Fiction from Its Beginnings to the End of the Harlem RenaissanceBone, an American critic and educator, is the author of the informative critical histories The Negro Novel in America (1958; rev. ed., 1965; see Further Reading) and Down Home: A History of Afro-American Short Fiction...Found in 20th Century Literature Criticism
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From: The Novels of the Harlem Renaissance: Twelve Black Writers, 1923-1933Singh is an Indian lecturer, educator, and critic. He has written extensively about black American literature, relating it to its sociological and folk origins. In the following excerpt from his study The Novels of the...Found in 20th Century Literature Criticism
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From: Black WorldKent is an American educator and critic. In the following excerpt from an essay written in 1972, he assesses the achievement of the Harlem Renaissance. GEORGE E. KENT [Kent is an American educator and critic. In the...Found in 20th Century Literature Criticism
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From: The Negro Novel in AmericaBone, an American critic and educator, is the author of the critical histories The Negro Novel in America (1958) and Down Home: A History of Afro-American Short Fiction from Its Beginnings to the End of the Harlem...Found in 20th Century Literature Criticism
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From: Toward a New American Literary History: Essays in Honor of Arlin Turner, Louis J. Budd, Edwin H. Cady, and Carl L. Anderson, EdsTurner is an American educator, poet, and critic specializing in black and Southern literature. In the following excerpt from an essay written in 1980, he examines prominent themes in Harlem Renaissance...Found in 20th Century Literature Criticism
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From: American TheatreIn the following essay, De Vries examines the recurring themes in Wilson's cycle of plays regarding the black experience. She identifies the most pervasive theme as the need for black Americans to forge anew their...Found in Drama Criticism
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From: American TheatreIn the following essay, DeVries examines the recurring themes in Wilson's cycle of plays regarding the black experience. She identifies the most pervasive theme as the need for black Americans to forge anew their...Found in Contemporary Literary Criticism
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From: The Harlem Renaissance: Revaluations[(essay date 1989) In the essay below, Ogren traces the influence of the jazz musical idiom on the other arts of the Harlem Renaissance, focusing especially on its shaping of the poetry of the period and its affirmation...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Be Happy, in The NationIn the following review of Lucy, Als discusses Kincaid's bitter depiction of Caribbean colonialism and racism in Lucy and A Small Place, noting their effect on shattering the popular myth of tropical paradise. [In the...Found in Contemporary Literary Criticism
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From: ConnoiseurIn the following essay, Reed discusses Wilson's prominence in American theater. [In the following essay, Reed discusses Wilson's prominence in American theater.] Except for A Raisin in the Sun, which ran for fifteen...Found in Contemporary Literary Criticism
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From: The Harlem Renaissance Re-ExaminedDarwin T. Turner During the past twenty years many black artists and critics began to insist that work by Afro-Americans must be created and evaluated according to a Black Aesthetic. That is, the work must be appropriate...Found in Contemporary Literary Criticism
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From: Short Stories of Langston HughesIn the following essay, Rampersad traces Hughes's early attempts at short story writing and documents themes of bigotry and intolerance in The Ways of White Folks. [In the following essay, Rampersad traces Hughes's...Found in Short Story Criticism
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From: The Langston Hughes ReviewIn the following essay, Rampersad argues that the Leftist critics failed Hughes. [In the following essay, Rampersad argues that the Leftist critics failed Hughes. ] Radicalism is one of the main points of pressure in...Found in Contemporary Literary Criticism
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From: Women of the Harlem RenaissanceIn the following excerpt, Wall discusses the limited social and artistic position of women writers of the Harlem Renaissance, pointing out their various responses to their constraints and suggesting that only Zora Neale...Found in 20th Century Literature Criticism