The Harlem Renaissance / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. - Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, 2004. - vi, 336 p. ; 25 cm. - Bloom's period studies .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-314) and index.

Harlem Renaissance re-examined / Warrington Hudlin -- Shape and shapers of the movement / Margaret Perry -- Black-white symbiosis : another look at the literary history of the 1920s / Amritjit Singh -- Langston Hughes : evolution of the poetic persona / Raymond Smith -- "Refined racism" : white patronage in the Harlem Renaissance / Bruce Kellner -- Color, sex, and poetry in the Harlem Renaissance / Akasha Gloria Hull -- Black autobiography and the comic vision / Richard K. Barksdale -- Harlem and the first Black Renaissance / Eva Lennox Birch -- Reading the Harlem Renaissance / David Levering Lewis -- Black Manhattan / James Weldon Johnson -- The new Negro / Alain Locke -- The Negro Renaissance and its significance / Charles S. Johnson -- The pulse of the Negro world / Amy Helene Kirschke -- The Negro author and his publisher / Sterling A. Brown -- Aspects of identity in Nella Larsen's novels / Cheryl A. Wall -- Survival and song : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance / Maureen Honey -- Iconography of the Harlem Renaissance / Patti Capel Swartz -- Toomer's Cane and the Harlem Renaissance / Geneviv��?�e Fabre -- The syncopated African / Michel Feith.

0791076792 (hardcover) 0791079864 (pbk.)

2003016873


American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
African Americans in literature.
Harlem Renaissance.


Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.

PS 153 .N5 / H225 2004