The Harlem Renaissance: Hub of African-American Culture, 1920-1930 (Circles of the Twentieth Century Series)
Description
This richly textured history explores Harlem between 1920 and 1930, when African-American writers, artists, musicians, and intellectuals transformed the neighborhood into a vibrant center of modern Black culture. It follows the creative and social networks surrounding figures such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, Aaron Douglas, and Richard Bruce Nugent, while also examining the influence of W.E.B. Du Bois, Alain Locke, and Harlem’s influential patrons and cultural observers. Against a backdrop of jazz clubs, theatrical revues, literary salons, and nightlife, the book considers the era’s negotiations of race, identity, sexuality, artistic freedom, and commercial fame. Maps, sociograms, archival details, slang, poetry, and song lyrics give this study an immersive sense of the community and cultural energy that defined the Harlem Renaissance.
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paperback
Pantheon
Published Aug 13, 1996
240 pages
ISBN: 9780679758891
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First Published
1995
Language
eng
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