Harlem's glory : Black women writing, 1900-1950

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Harlem's glory : Black women writing, 1900-1950

edited by Lorraine Elena Roses, Ruth Elizabeth Randolph

Harvard University Press, 1996

  • : cloth : alk. paper

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In poems, stories, memoirs and essays about colour and culture, prejudice and love, and feminine trials, dozens of African-American women writers - some famous, many just discovered - give us a sense of a distinct inner voice and an engagement with their larger double culture. "Harlem's Glory" unfolds a tradition of writing by African-American women, hitherto mostly hidden, in the first half of the 20th century. In historical context, with special emphasis on matters of race and gender, are the words of luminaries like Zora Neale Hurston and Georgia Douglas Johnson as well as writings by figures like Angelina Weld Grimke, Elise Johnson McDougald and Regina Andrews, all culled from archives and arcane magazines. Editors Lorraine Elena Roses and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph arrange their selections to reveal not just the little-suspected extent of black women's writing, but its prodigious existence beyond the cultural confines of New York City. "Harlem's Glory" also shows how literary creativity often co-existed with social activism in the works of African-American women.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Black and white tangled threads: sanctuary, Nella Larsen
  • two gentlemen of Boston, Florida Ruffin Ridley
  • little heads - a one-act play of negro life, Alvira Hazzard
  • my two grandmothers, Aloise Barbour Epperson
  • flower of the South, Gertrude Schalk
  • masks, a story, Eloise Bibb Thompson
  • the man who passed - a play in one act, Regina M. Andrews
  • why, how, when and where black becomes white, Mary Church Terrell
  • from "Black and White Tangled Threads", Zara Wright. Part 2 Dreaming in colour: belated romance, Florence Marion Harmon
  • the pink hat, Caroline Bond Day
  • hope deferred, Alice Dunbar-Nelson
  • Lai-Li, Mae V. Cowdery
  • little Cornish, the "Blue Boy", Effie Lee Newsome
  • the noose, Octavia B. Wynbush
  • if wishes were horses, Edythe Mae Gordon
  • subversion, Edythe Mae Gordon. Part 3 Native daughter: to a wild rose, Ottie B. Graham
  • the Zulu king - New Orleans (at Mardi Gras), Josephine Copeland
  • negro folk songs, Josephine Copeland
  • preface - other Bostonians, Florida Ruffin Ridley
  • nativity, Gladys Casely Hayford
  • a poem, Gladys Casely Hayford
  • the palm wine seller, Gladys Casely Hayford
  • rainy season love song, Gladys Casely Hayford
  • is it not enough, Ida Rowland
  • negroid things, Ida Rowland
  • are we different?, Ida Rowland
  • the family of Nat Turner, 1831-1954, Lucy Mae Turner
  • where the west begins, from "American Daughter", Era Bell Thompson
  • from "The Negro Trailblazers of California", Delilah Leontium Beasley
  • native daughter - an indictment of white America by a coloured woman, Ellen Tarry. Part 4 Longings: calling dreams, Georgia Douglas Johnson
  • question, Georgia Douglas Johnson
  • my son, Georgia Douglas Johnson
  • armageddon, Georgia Douglas Johnson
  • interim, Georgia Douglas Johnson
  • ivy, Georgia Douglas Johnson
  • I wonder, Georgia Douglas Johnson
  • afterglow, Georgia Douglas Johnson
  • love's way - a Christmas story, Carrie W. Clifford
  • joy, Clarissa Scott Delany
  • the mask, Clarissa Scott Delany
  • interim, Clarissa Scott Delany
  • solace, Clarissa Scott Delany
  • noblesse oblige, Jessie Fauset
  • dead fires, Jessie Fauset
  • oblivion, Jessie Fauset
  • la vie c'est la vie, Jessie Fauset, words! words!, Jessie Fauset
  • the eternal quest, Anita Scott Coleman
  • in '61, Ethel Caution Davis
  • longing, Ethal Caution Davis
  • sunset, Ethel Caution Davis
  • long remembering, Ethel Caution Davis
  • longings, Nellie R. Bright. Part 5 Spunk: early days in Cleveland, from "A Nickel and a Prayer", Jane Edna Hunter
  • the negro today, Marion Vera Cuthbert
  • a talk on evolution, Mercedes Gilbert
  • the equal rights league, from "Crusade for Justice", Ida B. Wells-Barnett
  • to the oppressors, Pauli Murray
  • Mr. Roosevelt regrets, Pauli Murray
  • from "Tales My Father Told and Other Stories", Hallie Quinn Brown
  • spunk, Zora Neale Hurston. Part 6 My great, wide, beautiful world: black, Nellie R. Bright
  • from "African Journey", Eslanda Goode Robeson. (Part contents).

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