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"This volume explores the contours and content of the Black Chicago Renaissance. A movement crafted in the crucible of rigid racial segregation in Chicago's "Black Belt" from the 1930's through the 1960's, its participants were also heavily influenced by--and influenced --the Harlem Renaissance and the Chicago Renaissance of white writers. Despite harsh segregation, black and white thinkers influenced one another particularly through their engagements with leftist organizations. In many ways, politically, racially, spatially, this was a movement invested in cross-pollination, change, and political activism, as much as literature, art, and aesthetics as it prepared the way for the literature of the Black Arts Movement and beyond. The volume begins with a look at Richard Wright, indisputably a central figure in the Black Chicago Renaissance with the publication of "Blueprint for Negro Writing." Wright sought to distance himself from what he considered to be the failures of the Harlem Renaissance, even as he built upon its aesthetic and cultural legacy. Subsequent chapters discuss Robert Abbott, William Attaway, Claude Barnett, Henry Blakely, Aldon Bland, Edward Bland, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, Frank London Brown, Alice Browning, Dan Burley, Margaret Danner, Frank Marshall Davis, Katherine Dunham, Richard Durham, Lorraine Hansberry, Fenton Johnson, John Johnson, Marian Minus, Williard Motley, Marita Bonner, Gordon Parks, John Sengstacke, Margaret Walker, Theodore Ward, Frank Yerby, Black newspapers, the Chicago School of Sociologists, the Federal Theater Project, Black Music, and John Reed Clubs"--

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Ralph Ellison has been a controversial figure, both lionized and vilified, since he seemed to burst fully formed on to the national literary scene in 1952 with the publication of Invisible Man. In this volume Steven C. Tracy has gathered a broad range of critics who look not only at Ellison's seminal novel but also at the fiction and nonfiction work that both preceded and followed it, focusing on important historical and cultural influences that help contextualize Ellison's thematic concerns and artistic aesthetic. These essays, all previously unpublished, explore how Ellison's various apprenciceships—in politics as a Black radical; in music as an admirer and practioner of European, American, and African-American music; and in literature as heir to his realist, naturalist, and modernist forebears—affected his mature literary productions, including his own careful molding of his literary reputation. They present us with a man negotiating the difficult sociopolitical, intellectual, and artistic terrain facing African Americans as America was increasingly forced to confront its own failures with regard to the promise of the American dream to its diverse populations. These wide-ranging historical essays, along with a brief biography and an illustrated chronology, provide a concise yet authoritative discussion of a twentieth-century American writer whose continued presence on the stage of American and world literature and culture is now assured.

African Americans in literature. --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Ellison, Ralph --- אליסון, ראלף --- Criticism and interpretation. --- African Americans in literature --- Ellison, Ralph, --- Critique et interprétation --- Ellison, Ralph Waldo --- Criticism and interpretation --- Critique et interprétation.

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HUGHES (LANGSTON), 1902-1967 --- LITTERATURE ET FOLKLORE --- POESIE POPULAIRE AMERICAINE --- NOIRS AMERICAINS --- RHYTHM AND BLUES (CHANTS, ETC.) --- NOIRS AMERICAINS DANS LA LITTERATURE --- ETATS-UNIS --- AUTEURS NOIRS --- MUSIQUE --- HUGHES (LANGSTON), 1902-1967 --- LITTERATURE ET FOLKLORE --- POESIE POPULAIRE AMERICAINE --- NOIRS AMERICAINS --- RHYTHM AND BLUES (CHANTS, ETC.) --- NOIRS AMERICAINS DANS LA LITTERATURE --- ETATS-UNIS --- 20E SIECLE --- AUTEURS NOIRS --- MUSIQUE

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Exploring new directions in the study of Brown's life and work, 'After Winter' is structured around new and previously published essays that sum up contemporary approaches to the multifaceted works that Brown created, interviews with Brown's acquaitances and contemporaries, and a discography of source material.

African American aesthetics. --- African Americans --- Aesthetics, African American --- Afro-American aesthetics --- Aesthetics, American --- Intellectual life --- Brown, Sterling Allen, --- Brown, Sterling A. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Brown, Sterling A.,