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Dlb 51 : Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940

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This volume-one of six DLB volumes discussing African-American writers-represents a peak period in African-American literary activity sometimes called the Harlem Renaissance or New Negro era, and lasting from about 1915 to the early 30s. During this time, African-American artists and writers from cities all around the U.S. flocked to Harlem and began a decade of striving to change popular perceptions of their people. As Trudier Harris describes the writers of this period in the volumes foreword: They sought...to change racist attitudes but to preserve African heritage, to diminish isolation between races but to nurture distinctive racial characteristics.

34 entries include: Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Georgia Douglas Johnson, ClaudeMcKay, George Samuel Schuyler, Jean Toomer and Walter Francis White.

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Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780810317291
  • ISBN-10: 081031729X
  • Publisher: Gale Cengage
  • Publish Date: August 1986
  • Dimensions: 11.08 x 8.48 x 0.95 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.26 pounds
  • Page Count: 352

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