Contains nineteen essays in which the authors examine various aspects of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, discussing the origins of the movements, its major figures and artists, and the challenges they faced.
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Harlem Renaissance re-examined / Warrington Hudlin -- Shape and shapers of the movement / Margaret Perry -- Black-white symbiosis : another look at the literary history of the 1920s / Amritjit Singh -- Langston Hughes : evolution of the poetic persona / Raymond Smith -- "Refined racism" : white patronage in the Harlem Renaissance / Bruce Kellner -- Color, sex, and poetry in the Harlem Renaissance / Akasha Gloria Hull -- Black autobiography and the comic vision / Richard K. Barksdale -- Harlem and the first Black Renaissance / Eva Lennox Birch -- Reading the Harlem Renaissance / David Levering Lewis -- Black Manhattan / James Weldon Johnson -- The new Negro / Alain Locke -- The Negro Renaissance and its significance / Charles S. Johnson -- The pulse of the Negro world / Amy Helene Kirschke -- The Negro author and his publisher / Sterling A. Brown -- Aspects of identity in Nella Larsen's novels / Cheryl A. Wall -- Survival and song : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance / Maureen Honey -- Iconography of the Harlem Renaissance / Patti Capel Swartz -- Toomer's Cane and the Harlem Renaissance / Geneviève Fabre -- The syncopated African / Michel Feith.