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
Formats: Print
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

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