The politics and aesthetics of "New Negro" literature / edited with introductions by Cary D. Wintz
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| Subjects: | American literature--African American authors--History and criticism Politics and literature--United States--History--20th century American literature--20th century--History and criticism African Americans--Intellectual life African Americans in literature African American aesthetics Harlem Renaissance Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Published: | New York : Garland Pub., 1996 |
| Series: | Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940 2 |
| LC Classification: | P, PS |
| Table of Contents: | Series Introduction Volume Introduction Ebony and topaz: A Collectanea / Charles S. Johnson 1 Defining the Harlem Renaissance and Black Literature The Negro-Art Hokum / George S. Schuyler 164 The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain / Langston Hughes 166 Editorial: American Negro Art / Charles S. Johnson 170 Editorial: Gambling the Lyre / Charles S. Johnson 172 Editorial: Some Perils of the "Renaissance" 174 Characteristics of Negro Expression / Zora Neale Hurston 175 Harlem Reviewed / Nancy Cunard 183 Art, Theater, and Music A Negro Art Exhibit 192 To Certain of Our Phillistines / Alain Locke 194 Editorial: Negro Art 196 Negro Art Past and Present / Albert C. Barnes 198 The Negro Spirituals and American Art / Laurence Buermeyer 202 Editorial: More About African Art 205 The Art of the Congo / Melville J. Herskovits 206 African Plastic in Contemporary Art / Harry Alan Potamkin 208 The Negro in Dramatic Art / Raymond O'Neil 211 The Negro in the Field of Drama / Rowena Woodham Jelliffe 214 Has the Negro a Place in the Theatre? / Jules Bledsoe 215 A Criticism of the Negro Drama: As It Relates to the Negro Dramatist and Artist / Eulalie Spence 216 The Theatre: A Review of Porgy / Harry S. Keelan 217 The Gift of Laugther / Jessie Fauset 219 The Negro's Cycle of Song - A Review / Arthur Huff Fauset 227 Self-Portraiture and Social Criticism in Negro Folk-Song / B. A. Botkin 230 The Profanation of Negro Spirituals / George A. Webb 236 Spirituals and Neo-Spirituals / Zora Neale Hurston 237 A Folk Culture in the Making / E. Franklin Frazier 241 Setting the Political Agenda for the Harlem Renaissance The Dilemma of the Negro Author / James Welden Johnson 247 The Larger Success / James Weldon Johnson 253 On Writing About Negroes 263 A Note on the Sociology of Negro Literature / Fred De Armond 265 The Advance of the Negro / V. F. Calverton 268 The Negro Enters Literature / Charles S. Johnson 271 Race Prejudice and the Negro Artist / James Weldon Johnson 283 The Negro Looks at an Outworn Tradition / Alice Dunbar Nelson 291 Negro Authors and White Publishers / James Weldon Johnson 297 Negro Authors Must Eat / George W. Jacobs 298 Our Literary Audience / Sterling A. Brown 300 The Burden of Credulity / H. L. Mencken 306 H.L. Mencken Finds Flowers in a "Dunghill" / A. Clayton Powell 308 Arts Is Not Enough / Benjamin Brawley 311 Claude McKay to Nancy Cunard, September 18, 1932 from Tangier, Morocco 317 Claude McKay to Nancy Cunard, September 29, 1932 from Tangier, Morocco 319 Writers, Words and the World / Langston Hughes 321 Democracy, Negroes, and Writers / Langston Hughes 323 My Adventure as a Social Poet / Langston Hughes 325 A Note on Contempo and Langston Hughes 333 The Politics of Publishing - Letters and Memos Alfred A. Knopf to Langston Hughes, July 29, 1930 335 Langston Hughes to Carl Van Vechten, September 4, 1930 336 Alfred A. Knopf to Langston Hughes, March 2, 1931 337 Carl Van Vechten to Blanche Knopf, April 3, 1933 338 Blanche Knopf to Langston Hughes, August 21, 1933 339 Langston Hughes to Blanche Knopf, February 27, 1934 340 Carl Van Vechten to Blanche Knopf, March 12, 1934 341 Blanche Knopf to Langston Hughes, March 12, 1934 342 Langston Hughes to Blanche Knopf, nd [1934] 343 Memo, HS (Harold Strauss) to Mr. Knopf, March 1, 1940 344 Memo, HS (Harold Strauss) to Mrs. Knopf, April 8, 1940 345 Langston Hughes to Mrs. Blanche Knopf, February 8, 1940 [from Monterey, California] 346 Reader's Report, November 27, 1942, Langston Hughes, The Big Sea, H. Strauss 348 The Politics of the New Negro The Negro and Radical Thought / W. E. B. Du Bois 350 Soviet Russia and the Negro / Claud McKay 353 Garvey and Garveyism - An Estimate / A. F. Elmes 363 The Garvey Movement / F. Franklin Frazier 366 Editorial: Garvey and the "Garvey Movement" 370 The Social Philosophy of Booker T. Washington / Charles S. Johnson 372 Acknowledgments 377 |
| Additional Authors: | Wintz, Cary D., 1943- |
| Notes: | LCCN: 96016126 //r96 ISBN: 0815322135 (alk. paper) Includes bibliographical references (p. xii) |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 381 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 34617741 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 0815322135 |