Double-take : a revisionist Harlem Renaissance anthology /

Brings together a comprehensive selection of texts from the Harlem Renaissance-a key period in the literary and cultural history of the United States. Offers a unique, balanced collection of writers--men and women, gay and straight, familiar and obscure. Arranged by author, rather than by genre, thi...

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Other Authors:	Patton, Venetria K., 1968- (Editor), Honey, Maureen, 1945- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2001.
Subjects:	1900-1999 American literature > African American authors. American literature > New York (State) > New York. African Americans > Literary collections. American literature > 20th century. African American arts. Harlem Renaissance. Littérature américaine > New York (État) > New York. Noirs américains > Anthologies. Littérature américaine > 20e siècle. Arts noirs américains. African Americans. American literature. Intellectual life. Anthologie Harlem renaissance American literature > New York (N.Y.) Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Intellectual life. New York (State) > New York. New York (State) > New York > Harlem. Essay Poetry essays. poetry. short stories. Drama. Essays. Literary collections. Musical texts. Poetry. Short stories. Essais. Poésie. Théâtre. Nouvelles. Paroles (Musique)

Table of Contents:

Essays. The new Negro / Alain Locke
The new Negro : what is he? / A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen
The Negro in American literature / William Stanley Braithwaite
Closed doors : a study in segregation / Ruth Whitehead Whaley
Harlem : the culture capital / James Weldon Johnson
A point of view : an opportunity dinner reaction / Brenda Ray Moryck
The Negro-art hokum / George S. Schuyler
The Negro artists and the racial mountain / Langston Hughes
On Langston Hughes : I am a Negro, and beautiful / Amy Jacques Garvey
Criteria of Negro art / W.E.B. Du Bois
Blueprint for Negro writing / Richard Wright
Characteristics of Negro expression / Zora Neale Hurston
Impressions of the second Pan-African Congress / Jessie Redmon Fauset
Africa for the Africans / Marcus Garvey
Gift of the black tropics / W.A. Domingo
The Caucasian storms Harlem / Rudolph Fisher
The task of Negro womanhood / Elise Johnson McDougald
On being young : a women and colored / Marita O. Bonner
Woman's most serious problem / Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Problems facing Negro young women / Marion Vera Cuthbert
The legacy of the ancestral arts / Alain Locke
Jazz at home / Joel A. Rogers
The American Negro paints / Gwendolyn B. Bennett.
Creative writing. The creation ; Mother night ; The white witch ; My city / James Weldon Johnson
Violets ; You! Inez! ; I sit and sew ; The proletariat speaks ; His great career / Alice Dunbar-Nelson
The heart of a woman ; Motherhood ; The octoroon ; Escape ; The black runner ; Wishes ; I want to die while you love me ; Tramp love ; Plumes : a folk tragedy / Georgia Douglas Johnson
El beso ; The black finger ; The want of you ; Dusk ; A Mona Lisa ; Tenebris ; Goldie ; Rachel / Angelina Weld Grimké
White things ; Lady, lady ; Letter to my sister ; Grapes : still-life ; Black man o'mine / Anne Spencer
Oriflamme ; Here's April! ; Words! Words! ; Touché ; La vie c'est la vie ; Mary Elizabeth / Jessie Redmon Fauset
The bronze legacy (To a brown boy) ; Exodus ; The birds in the cage ; The quilt / Effie Lee Newsome (aka Mary Effie Lee)
Requiem ; In Haiti is riot of color ; Fog ; 'Cruiter / John F. Matheus
The banjo player ; The scarlet woman ; Tired / Fenton Johnson
The Harlem dancer ; If we must die ; Africa ; America ; Baptism ; Harlem shadows ; To O.E.A. ; Like a strong tree ; The tropics in New York ; Mattie and her sweetman / Claude McKay
The chip woman's fortune ; The flight of the natives / Willis Richardson
Wash day ; Definition ; Black baby ; Black faces ; Negro laughter ; Two old women a-shopping go! : a story of man, marriage, and poverty / Anita Scott Coleman
Passion ; Spunk ; Sweat ; Color struck / Zora Neale Hurston
Sanctuary / Nella Larsen
Undertow / Eulalie Spence
Song of the son ; Georgia dusk ; Portrait in Georgia ; Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer
And what shall you say? ; Is it because I am black? ; Sonnet to Negro soldiers ; Rain music ; On the fields of France / Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr.
The city of refuge ; Miss Cynthie / Rudolph Fisher
The voodoo's revenge / Eric Walrond
Riding the goat / May Miller
One boy's story ; The pot maker / Marita O. Bonner
Ma Rainey ; Sam Smiley ; Southern road ; Strong men / Sterling A. Brown
The Negro speaks of rivers ; Danse africaine ; Jazzonia ; Song to a Negro wash-woman ; Dream variation ; Desire ; Poem [2] ; The weary blues ; To midnight Nan at Leroy's ; Lullaby ; Listen here blues ; Bound no'th blues ; Song for a dark girl ; The blues I'm playing ; Mulatto : a tragedy of the deep South / Langston Hughes
Heritage ; To a dark girl ; Hatred ; Advice ; Fantasy ; Wedding day ; Tokens / Gwendolyn B. Bennett
The last citadel ; God's edict ; Cordelia the crude ; Emma Lou / Wallace Thurman
Golgotha is a mountain ; Length of moon ; Nocturne at Bethesda ; A black man talks of reaping ; God give to men ; The return ; A summer tragedy / Arna Bontemps
Heritage ; Sacrament ; Tableau ; Yet do I marvel ; From the dark tower ; Colored blues singer ; To certain critics ; Little sonnet to little friends / Countee Cullen
Rainy season love song ; The serving girl ; Lullaby ; The palm wine seller / Gladys May Casely Hayford (aka Aquah Laluah)
No images ; Dust ; The radical / (William) Waring Cuney
Shadow ; Sahdji ; Smoke, lilies, and jade! ; Sahdji, an African ballet / Richard Bruce Nugent (aka Richard Bruce)
The typewriter ; The black dress / Dorothy West
My race ; Magalu ; The road ; Mother ; Bottled ; Poem ; Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem / Helene Johnson
Dusk ; Heritage ; Insatiate ; Poem--for a lover / Mae V. Cowdery.

Double-take : a revisionist Harlem Renaissance anthology /

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