The Harlem Renaissance: a handbook, 1987

Williams, Ella O.

1980-1989

The object of this study is to help instructors articulate and communicate the value of the arts created during the Harlem Renaissance. It focuses on earlier events such as W. E. B. Du Bois editorship of The Crisis and some follow-up of major discussions beyond the period. The handbook also investigates and compiles a large segment of scholarship devoted to the historical and cultural activities of the Harlem Renaissance (19101940). The study discusses the New Negro and the use of the term. The men who lived and wrote during the era identified themselves as intellectuals and called the rapid growth of literary talent the Harlem Renaissance. Alain Lockes The New Negro (1925) and James Weldon Johnsons Black Manhattan (1930) documented the activities of the intellectuals as they lived through the era and as they themselves were developing the history of Afro-American culture. Theatre, music and drama flourished, but in the fields of prose and poetry names such as Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and Zora Neale Hurston typify the Harlem Renaissance movement.

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application/pdf

1987-07-01

dissertation

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Atlanta University

African-American Studies

Long, Richard A.

Clark Atlanta University

Georgia--Atlanta

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:1987_williams_ella_o