Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, Second Edition
5.0/ 5
1 ratings
About This Book
In this, the world’s first *Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance*, readers do something more than witness the triumphs and tragedies of poets such as Langston Hughes and Jean Toomer, novelists like Ralph Ellison and Zora Neale Hurston, musicians like Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker, and performance artists such as Lena Horne and Paul Robeson. Through their challenges and victories, we are encouraged to identify and claim our own challenges and victories. *Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance* takes us inside the clubs, theatres, and relationships that made Harlem, New York City, the one-time “Party Capital of the World,” and one of the greatest cultural centers of any era. It also places on bold display the genius that gave the world ragtime, Jazz, the blues, gospel, swing, and all night dancing. Whereas previously the Harlem Renaissance was considered primarily as the literary achievement of a handful of writers, Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance demonstrates that it was a triumphant exultation of creative genius across the cultural board and one that spread both nationally and internationally. Moreover, through leaders such as James Weldon Johnson, A. Philip Randolph, and W. E. B. Du Bois, it laid the foundation for what would grow into the extraordinary Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
Track Your Reading
Sign in to save this book, track pages, log finished reads and rereads, and build your Reading Diary.
Sign InAfrican Americans in literaturerace relationsAfrican-American historyartAfrican American authorsAfrican American artsIntellectual lifecivil rightsAmerican literaturemodernismHarlem Renaissancejazz age
The Swinging Light
Book Details
First Published
2003
Pages
424 pages
Rating
5.0 / 5
Ratings
1
Editions
4
Publisher
Infobase Publishers
Language
ENG
Status
Published
The People Behind The Book
Authors
You May Also Like
Recommended Books
The concise Oxford companion to African American literature
2001
William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, Trudier Harris
The United States in Literature -- The Glass Menagerie Edition
1973
James Edwin Miller, Robert Hayden, Robert O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, William Bradford, John Smith, Anne Bradstreet, Esther Edwards, Taylor, Edward, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Benjamin Franklin, Phyllis Wheatley, Thomas Jefferson, William Bartram, Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Buber, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., James Russell Lowell, James Wilson Pennington, Henry Timrod, Abraham Lincoln, Sidney Lanier, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Ambrose Bierce, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Crane, Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Anne Porter, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, Eudora Welty, Prudencio De Pereda, Carson McCullers, Donald Barthelme, John Updike, Americo Paredes, E. B. White, George Santayana, Art Buchwald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Archibald MacLeish, Donald A. Stauffer, Spencer, Theodore, John Dos Passos, Edgar Lee Masters, Jesse Stuart, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay, Stephen Vincent Benét, Luis Munoz Marin, Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Marianne Moore, John Crowe Ransom, Elinor Wylie, W. H. Auden, Allen Tate, Kenneth Fearing, Robinson Jeffers, Richard Eberhart, Margaret Walker, Theodore Roethke, Gwendolyn Brooks, Howard Nemerov, James Wright, Richard Wilbur, Randall Jarrell, Robert Earl Hayden, Robert Lowell, John Ciardi, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Davis, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, William Stafford, Henry Dumas, Mona Van Duyn, Robert Creeley, Amiri Baraka, Michael Harper, Victor Hernández Cruz
