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African American women in literature --- African Americans in literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Afro-Amerikaanse vrouwen in de literatuur --- Afro-Amerikanen in de literatuur --- Afro-Américains dans la littérature --- Amerikaanse zwarten in de literatuur --- Black Americans in literature --- Femmes afro-américaines dans la littérature --- Negroes in literature --- Noirs américains dans la littérature --- Zwarte Amerikanen in de literatuur --- Hurston, Zora Neale

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American literature --- Women and literature --- African American women --- African American women in literature --- African Americans in literature --- Harlem Renaissance --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Literature --- New Negro Movement --- Renaissance, Harlem --- African American arts --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Afro-American women in literature --- Afro-American women --- Women, African American --- Women, Negro --- Women --- African American authors --- History and criticism --- History --- Women authors --- Intellectual life --- United States --- 20th century --- Fauset, Jessie Redmon --- Criticism and interpretation --- Hurston, Zora Neale --- Larsen, Nella --- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) --- New York (State) --- New York (N.Y.) --- African American women in literature. --- African Americans in literature. --- Harlem Renaissance. --- Women authors. --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life.

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The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural awakening among African Americans between the two world wars. It was the cultural phase of the "New Negro" movement, a social and political phenomenon that promoted a proud racial identity, economic independence, and progressive politics.In this Very Short Introduction, Cheryl A. Wall captures the Harlem Renaissance's zeitgeist by identifying issues and strategies that engaged writers, musicians, and visual artists alike. She introduces key figures such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, and Jean Toomer, alongwith such signature texts as "Mother to Son," "Harlem Shadows," and Cane. In examining the "New Negro," she looks at the art of photographer James Van der Zee and painters Archibald Motley and Laura Wheeler and the way Marita Bonner, Jessie Fauset, and Nella Larsen explored the dilemmas of genderidentity for New Negro women. Focusing on Harlem as a cultural capital, Wall covers theater in New York, where black musicals were produced on Broadway almost every year during the 1920s. She also depicts Harlem nightlife with its rent parties and clubs catering to working class blacks, wealthywhites, and gays of both races, and the movement of Renaissance artists to Paris.From Hughes's "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" to W.E.B. Du Bois's novel Dark Princess, black Americans explored their relationship to Africa. Many black American intellectuals met African intellectuals in Paris, where they made common cause against European colonialism and race prejudice. Folklore -spirituals, stories, sermons, and dance - was considered raw material that the New Negro artist could alchemize into art. Consequently, they applauded the performance of spirituals on the concert stage by artists like Roland Hayes and Paul Robeson. The Harlem Renaissance left an indelible mark notonly on African American visual and performing arts, but, as Cheryl Wall shows, its legacies are all around us.

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African American families in literature --- African American women --- American fiction --- American prose literature --- Domestic fiction, American --- Families in literature --- Genealogy in literature --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Kinship in literature --- Intellectual life --- African American authors --- History and criticism --- Women authors

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Since its inception, black feminist literary criticism has produced a number of sophisticated theoretical works that have challenged traditional approaches to (black) literature. This collection of essays explores past and current productions of black feminist theorizing, attempting to trace the trajectories in black feminist criticism that have emerged in American scholarship since the 1990s. Taking black feminist literary criticism as the subject of inquiry, the book focuses on the field's recent theoretical contributions to literary productions and their impact on other fields. The volume contains an introduction by Cheryl A. Wall, and essays by Karla Kovalova, Heike Raphael-Hernandez, and Nagueyalti Warren.

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