The Harlem Renaissance revisited : politics, arts, and letters / edited by Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ogbar, Jeffrey O. G.
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Harlem Renaissance.
African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Intellectual life > 20th century.
African American arts > New York (State) > New York > 20th century.
African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Politics and government > 20th century.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Politics and government > 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) > Politics and government > 20th century.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
African Americans > Politics and government > 20th century.
Physical Description:vi, 264 pages
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: The Harlem Renaissance revisited
  • pt. 1. Aesthetics and the new Negro
  • African American representations on stage : minstrel performances and Hurston's dream of a "real" Negro theatre / Mónica González Caldeiro
  • No Negro Renaissance : Hubert H. Harrison and the role of the new Negro literary critic / Ousmane Power-Greene
  • It's all sacred music : Duke Ellington from the Cotton Club to the cathedral / Frank A. Salamone
  • pt. 2. Class and place in Harlem
  • "So the girl marries" : myth, mystery, and the Du Bois Cullen wedding / Jacqueline Jones
  • The meaning and significance of Southern tradition in Rudolph Fisher's short story The South lingers on / Aija Poikane Daumke
  • Working Harlem : everyday life and labor during the Harlem Renaissance / Jacob S. Dorman
  • pt. 3. Literary icons reconsidered
  • Jessie Redmon Fauset, reconsidered / Claire Oberon Garcia
  • Speak it into existence : James Weldon Johnson's God trombones and the power of self-definition in the new Negro Harlem Renaissance / McKinley Melton
  • Border crossings : Zora Neale Hurston & Claude McKay's diasporic travels / Myriam J.A. Chancy
  • The search for self in Thurman's The blacker the berry / Martha Cook
  • pt. 4. Gender constructions
  • Between Black gay men : artistic collaboration and the Harlem Renaissance in Brother to brother / Shawn Anthony Christian
  • Jack Johnson, Paul Robeson, and the hyper masculine African American Ubermensch / Paula Marie Seniors
  • pt. 5. Politics and the new Negro
  • Perspectives on interwar culture : remapping the new Negro era / Perry Hall
  • "Harlem globetrotters" : Black sojourners in Stalin's Soviet Union / Maxim Matusevich
  • Afterword.