Children's literature of the Harlem Renaissance

Author(s)

• Smith, Katharine Capshaw

Bibliographic Information

Children's literature of the Harlem Renaissance

Katharine Capshaw Smith

（Blacks in the diaspora）

Indiana University Press, c2004

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-325) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The Harlem Renaissance, the period associated with the flowering of the arts in Harlem, inaugurated a tradition of African American children's literature, for the movement's central writers made youth both their subject and audience. W.E.B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, Langston Hughes, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and other Harlem Renaissance figures took an impassioned interest in the literary models offered to children, believing that the "New Negro" would ultimately arise from black youth. As a result, African American children's literature became a crucial medium through which a disparate community forged bonds of cultural, economic, and aesthetic solidarity. Kate Capshaw Smith explores the period's vigorous exchange about the nature and identity of black childhood and uncovers the networks of African American philosophers, community activists, schoolteachers, and literary artists who worked together to transmit black history and culture to the next generation.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• 1. The Emblematic Black Child: Du Bois's Crisis Publications
• 2. Creating the Past, Present, and Future: New Negro Children's Drama
• 3. The Legacy of the South: Revisiting the Plantation Tradition
• 4. The Peace Makers: Carter G. Woodson's Circle
• 5. The Aesthetics of Black Children's Literature: Arna Bontemps and Langston Hughes
• Epilogue

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Details

• NCID: BA68081744
• ISBN:
  • 0253344433
• LCCN: 2003025351
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Bloomington
• Pages/Volumes: xxvi, 338 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS153.N5
  • DC22 : 910.9/9282/0899607307471
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : American literature -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Children's literature, American -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : African American children -- Books and reading
  • LCSH : African American children in literature
  • LCSH : African Americans in literature
  • LCSH : Harlem Renaissance
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA01245153