The Harlem Renaissance revisited : politics, arts, and letters

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The Harlem Renaissance revisited : politics, arts, and letters

edited by Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010

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  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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This volume provides new historical and literary insights into the Harlem Renaissance, returning attention to it not only as a broad expression of artistic work but also as a movement that found catharsis in art and hope in resistance. By examining such major figures of the era as Jessie Fauset, Paul Robeson, and Zora Neale Hurston, the contributors reframe our understanding of the interplay of art, politics, culture, and society in 1920s Harlem. The fourteen essays explore the meaning and power of Harlem theater, literature, and art during the period; probe how understanding of racial, provincial, and gender identities originated and evolved; and reexamine the sociopolitical contexts of this extraordinary black creative class. Delving into these topics anew, The Harlem Renaissance Revisited reconsiders the national and international connections of the movement and how it challenged cliched interpretations of sexuality, gender, race, and class. The contributors show how those who played an integral role in shattering stereotypes about black creativity pointed the way toward real freedom in the United States, in turn sowing some of the seeds of the Black Power movement. A fascinating chapter in the history of the African American experience and New York City, the cultural flowering of the Harlem Renaissance reverberates today. This thought-provoking combination of social history and intellectual art criticism opens this powerful moment in history to renewed and dynamic interpretation and sharper discussion.

目次

Introduction Part I: Aesthetics and the New Negro Chapter 1. African American Representations on the Stage: Minstrel Performances and Hurston's Dream of a "Real" Negro Theater Chapter 2. No Negro Renaissance: Hubert H. Harrison and the Role of the New Negro Literary Critic Chapter 3. It's All Sacred Music: Duke Ellington, from the Cotton Club to the Cathedral Part II: Class and Place in Harlem Chapter 4. "So the Girl Marries": Class, the Black Press, and the Du Bois - Cullen Wedding of 1928 Chapter 5. The Meaning and Significance of Southern Tradition in Rudolph Fisher's Stories Chapter 6. Back to Harlem: Abstract and Everyday Labor during the Harlem Renaissance Part III: Literary Icons Reconsidered Chapter 7. Jessie Redmon Fauset Reconsidered Chapter 8. Speak It into Existence: James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones and the Power of Self- Definition in the New Negro Harlem Renaissance Chapter 9. Border Crossings: The Diasporic Travels of Claude McKay and Zora Neale Hurston Chapter 10. The Search for Self in Wallace Thurman's The Blacker the Berry: Color, Class, and Community Part IV: Gender Constructions Chapter 11. Jack Johnson, Paul Robeson, and the Hypermasculine African American UEbermensch Chapter 12. Between Black Gay Men: Artistic Collaboration and the Harlem Renaissance in Brother to Brother Part V: Politics and the New Negro Chapter 13. Perspectives on Interwar Culture: Remapping the New Negro Era Chapter 14. "Harlem Globe- Trotters": Black Sojourners in Stalin's Soviet Union Afterword List of Contributors Index

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