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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"The Harlem Renaissance"”.
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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)
… indicate that 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
A Novel Way to Learn examines the development of black fiction in tandem with black educational 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 …
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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"
My thesis is comprised of a collection of 35 poems, new and revised, and it will include an introduction that traces the evolution of my writing starting from early influences through my term in the UT Chattanooga graduate program. This abstract is meant to provide a context for the creative pr …
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A Lasting Legacy: Hale Woodruff's The Art of the Negro
<p>This thesis examines the life and work of artist Hale Woodruff, with a particular focus on his six-panel mural entitled The Art of the Negro. Unveiled at Atlanta University's Trevor Arnett Library in 1952, The Art of the Negro was the last mural created during Woodruff's career and represents …
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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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"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 Bohemian comes to Harlem : the literary career and critical theories of Wallace Thurman.
Both published and 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 …
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Cane: the American Adam rekindled
<i>Cane</i> is already recognized 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 …
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Rudolph Fisher : An Annotated Bibliography
This thesis project constitutes an exhaustive, annotated bibliography of an oft overlooked and too 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 …
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Claude McKay and the transnational novel
This thesis considers the three works of fiction of the Jamaican author Claude McKay (1889-1948) as a coherent transnational trilogy which dramatises the semi-autobiographical complexities of diasporic exile and return in the period of the 1920s and 1930s. Chapter One explores McKay’s urban North …
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Under theCapital Dome:' the Literary Culture of Middle-Class African Americans In Columbia, South Carolina, 1930-1932
<p> In Columbia, South Carolina the literary activities that took place <“> Under the Capital Dome <”> shows a circle of readers deeply connected with their community and using literature to help shape their world views. This triad of a newspaper, reading group, and library attest to …
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“BELIEF IN MAGIC IS OLDER THAN WRITING”: AN EXAMINATION OF ETHNOGRAPHIC AND LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF AFRICAN-BASED BELIEF SYSTEMS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1928-1988.
This thesis maps representations of African-based belief systems in the United States during two pivotal moments in the twentieth century – the Harlem Renaissance and the post-Civil Rights/Black Power era. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach and engaging with literary studies, history, and …
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Politics From the Pedestal: Modernity, Cultural Intervention, and the Myth of *Southern Womanhood, 1920--1945
How has the myth of Southern Womanhood been central to white southern women writers who had strong roots in plantation culture? What did white southern women writers contribute to the emergence of the Southern (literary) Renaissance around 1920? How did these writers respond to the mass northern …
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Expressions of African American identity in the cantata “Simon Bore the Cross” by Margaret Bonds and Langston Hughes
This dissertation examines the cantata Simon Bore the Cross by the composer Margaret Bonds and the poet Langston Hughes, a work that has never been studied before. It includes background on Bonds and an in-depth look at the letters between Bonds and Hughes, a correspondence which spanned over three …
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"Ain't You Heard"?: The Jazz Poetry of Langston Hughes
<p>It all began with a piano bench. At the age of four, I sat next to my first piano teacher, as she told me the names of the keys. 'This is C, D, E . . . ," she said, her finger touching each key. moving through the entirety of a C-major scale. Afterward she asked, "Now. which one is F?" Though I …
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INTIMACY AND AUTONOMY: TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN WOMEN AND THE QUEST FOR SELF-REALIZATION
This dissertation examines the effects of culturally managed gender expectations on intimate spaces. The study of these intimate spaces is rooted in the biographies of four relationships in the post-war period. Through exploration of these individual stories an understanding emerges of how …
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