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Black Versus Bourgeois During the Harlem Renaissance: The Study of a Literary Conflict
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The Harlem Renaissance and The Negritude Movement: Literary Relations and Influences (New York City)
… literary relations between the writers of the Harlem Renaissance of those of the Negritude Movement are based upon thematic and stylistic similarities as well as mere literary analogies.
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A novel way to learn: black educational fiction from reconstruction to the Harlem renaissance
… advancement from Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance. By reading education in the novels of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Sutton Griggs, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Jessie Redmon Fauset, I reveal an underexplored genealogy of black educational thought from initial calls for educational …
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"A Shade Too Unreserved": Destabilizing Sexuality and Gender Constructs of the New Negro Identity in Harlem Renaissance Literature
<p>Much of the Harlem Renaissance artistic movement was directly intertwined with the New Negro social movement of the time. Race leaders spoke to and influenced artistic trends, while artists often engaged with the New Negro race issues and social debates through their works. Wallace Thurman, …
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A Study of the Comparative Effectiveness of Computer-Assisted Instruction and Traditional Instruction Methods in Teaching Classification of Harlem Renaissance Paintings
The findings suggested that the CAI instruction, specifically drill and practice, was as effective as traditional methods supplemented by group study sessions.
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The Heart of a Woman: Curating the Present Inventory and Promoting Future Musical Settings of Texts by Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance gave rise to many great Black writers at the beginning of the 20th century. Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Countee Cullen are among familiar names. However, alongside these were women such as Georgia Douglas Johnson, Anne Spencer, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and many more …
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"To make a poet black then bid him sing"
… a poet Black then bid him sing,” comes from the Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen’s, “Yet do I Marvel,” a poem that questions God’s intentions in placing a curse on a man, then requiring him to sing. This to me was a dichotomy that seemed to underpin my own work as it was developing. There …
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A Lasting Legacy: Hale Woodruff's The Art of the Negro
… aesthetic ideas promoted by the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance. The mural asserts the significance of African art while providing a unified cultural identity that draws inspiration from a common African ancestry.</p>
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After the Renaissance: Art and Harlem in the 1960s
<p>For almost a century, Harlem has carried a symbolic weight that transcends the physical confines of upper Manhattan. In 1925, the philosopher and critic Alain Locke dubbed Harlem a “mecca,” a spiritual home that attracted people of African descent from around the world. Locke dubbed the cultural …
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Zur Problematik von Herkunft, Geschlecht und Identitätsfindung in den beiden Romanen von Nella Larsen "Quicksand" (1928) und "Passing" (1929)
… Literaturgeschichte, Identitätsentwürfe in der Harlem Renaissance, Vorstellungen von Weiblichkeit und Sexualität und schließlich auf die Praxis des Passing (dem Verschleiern eines Teils der Herkunft zu Gunsten eines anderen).
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A Bohemian comes to Harlem : the literary career and critical theories of Wallace Thurman.
… unpublished materials from the writers of the Harlem Renaissance (1923-33) indicate that the focal point, the central meeting place of Black Bohemia, was the residence of Wallace Thurman. Thurman, a black writer, became a central figure of the renaissance movement largely because of his life …
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Cane: the American Adam rekindled
… as the most significant landmark of the Harlem Renaissance, and as one of the first major contributions to black literature. However, critics have neglected to address its similarities to nineteenth-century American literature, and specifically how it continues a celebrated tradition …
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Ecology of the color line: race and nature in American literature, 1895-1941
… and Washington to the cultural ingenuity of the Harlem Renaissance, chapter three, “The ‘Garden Queer’: Urban Nature and the Ghetto Pastoral in the Poetry of Anne Spencer and Claude McKay,” traces the garden-in-the-machine trope from Spencer’s poetry and McKay’s Spring in New Hampshire (the …
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Rudolph Fisher : An Annotated Bibliography
… seldom referenced African American author of the Harlem Renaissance, Rudolph Fisher. This work is bibliographic in nature not biographic and careful note should be placed on the extensively researched source list. Prior to this project, “A Corrected Bibliography of Rudolph Fisher” by Leonard J. …
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Towards National Identity: Addiction, Subjectivity, and American Literary Culture
… including Temperance-era speeches and sermons, Harlem Renaissance novels depicting underground jazz and nightclub culture, memoirs and autobiographical fiction that promise an insider's view of addiction and its impact on everyday life, and novels of the 1980s that illumine potent connections …
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Modernism and the American system: standardization, ugliness, literature, 1900-1930
… (social realism, avant-garde, middlebrow, Harlem Renaissance) negotiated this new cultural terrain, my project expands the field of modernism while providing cultural and aesthetic links that integrate these traditions into one cohesive narrative of literary production during the early …
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