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Author : Carl Van Vechten
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0252068602
A controversial novel about the Black community in Harlem during the 1920s, criticized for its depiction of immorality and racist characterization of Black people.
Author : Carl Van Vechten
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066358488
Published in October 1926, this novel by Carl Van Vechten takes place during the 1920s Harlem Renaissance. It opens with a prologue about Scarlet Creeper, a violent pimp. The story is divided into two novellas. The first focuses on Mary Love, a librarian captivated by the diverse cultures and hierarchies of Harlem but uncertain of her place. She engages in a brief relationship with writer Byron Kasson, discussing literature and art. The second novella explores Byron's resentment towards New York's segregation. After his involvement with Mary, he embarks on a wild journey with a debauched socialite in Harlem. The socialite leaves him, reinforcing his negative perception of society. The novel concludes with a violent encounter between Scarlet and Byron.
Author : Terence Jackson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595316663
Few contemporary writers share the remarkable talent of Terence E.Jackson. - A talent for telling a story with brightly -lit realism, for depicting characters with extraordinary sharpness and insight, and for inciting his readers to agree or disagree with his viewpoint. Mr. Jackson has indeed done what many of his peers have failed to do. That is restore the African-American novel to it's rightful place. Like a bullet being fired from a gun, Nigger's Heaven grabs hold from the first page and never lets go. Nigger's Heaven is a story all readers will want to know and that none will ever forget.
Author : Eleonore van Notten
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004483750
Wallace Thurman (1902-1934) played a pivotal role in creating and defining the Harlem Renaissance. Thurman's complicated life as a black writer is described here for the first time: from his birth in Salt Lake City, Utah; through his quixotic and spotty education; to his arrival and residence in New York City at the height of the New Negro Movement in Harlem. Seen as it often is through the life of Langston Hughes, the Harlem Renaissance is celebrated as a highly successful Afro-centrist achievement. Seen from Thurman's perspective, as set against the historical and cultural background of the Jazz Age, the accomplishments of the Harlem Renaissance appear more qualified and more equivocal. In Thurman's view the Harlem Renaissance's failure to live up to its initial promise resulted from an ideological underpinning which was overwhelmingly concerned with race. He felt that the movement's self-consciousness and faddism compromised the aesthetic standards of many of its writers and artists, including his own.
Author : Leon Coleman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0815331266
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : George Hutchinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0521673682
This 2007 Companion is a comprehensive guide to the key authors and works of the African American literary movement.
Author : Carl Van Vechten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1106766914
Author : Cary D. Wintz,Paul Finkelman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135455361
From the music of Louis Armstrong to the portraits by Beauford Delaney, the writings of Langston Hughes to the debut of the musical Show Boat, the Harlem Renaissance is one of the most significant developments in African-American history in the twentieth century. The Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, in two-volumes and over 635 entries, is the first comprehensive compilation of information on all aspects of this creative, dynamic period. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedi a of Harlem Renaissance website.
Author : Carl Van Vechten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3849300080
Author : Emily Bernard
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300183290
By the time of his death in 1964, Carl Van Vechten had been a far-sighted journalist, a best-selling novelist, a consummate host, an exhaustive archivist, a prescient photographer, and a Negrophile bar non. A white man with an abiding passion for blackness.
Author : Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118494066
A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance presents a comprehensive collection of original essays that address the literature and culture of the Harlem Renaissance from the end of World War I to the middle of the 1930s. Represents the most comprehensive coverage of themes and unique new perspectives on the Harlem Renaissance available Features original contributions from both emerging scholars of the Harlem Renaissance and established academic “stars” in the field Offers a variety of interdisciplinary features, such as the section on visual and expressive arts, that emphasize the collaborative nature of the era Includes “Spotlight Readings” featuring lesser known figures of the Harlem Renaissance and newly discovered or undervalued writings by canonical figures
Author : Carl Van Vechten
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820346175
Eighty-three photographs presenting W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Bessie Smith, Ruby Dee, Lena Horne, James Baldwin, and others, demonstrate Van Vechten's intent to enlighten white America about black culture.
Author : Susan Gubar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : African Americans in popular culture
ISBN : 9780195134186
When the actor Ted Danson appeared in blackface at a 1993 Friars Club roast, he ignited a firestorm of protest that landed him on the front pages of the newspapers, rebuked by everyone from talk show host Montel Williams to New York City's then mayor, David Dinkins. Danson's use of blackface was shocking, but was the furious pitch of the response a triumphant indication of how far society has progressed since the days when blackface performers were the toast of vaudeville, or was it also an uncomfortable reminder of how deep the chasm still is separating black and white America? In Racechanges: White Skin, Black Face in American Culture, Susan Gubar, who fundamentally changed the way we think about women's literature as co-author of the acclaimed The Madwoman in the Attic, turns her attention to the incendiary issue of race. Through a far-reaching exploration of the long overlooked legacy of minstrelsy--cross-racial impersonations or "racechanges"--throughout modern American film, fiction, poetry, painting, photography, and journalism, she documents the indebtedness of "mainstream" artists to African-American culture, and explores the deeply conflicted psychology of white guilt. The fascinating "racechanges" Gubar discusses include whites posing as blacks and blacks "passing" for white; blackface on white actors in The Jazz Singer, Birth of a Nation, and other movies, as well as on the faces of black stage entertainers; African-American deployment of racechange imagery during the Harlem Renaissance, including the poetry of Anne Spencer, the black-and-white prints of Richard Bruce Nugent, and the early work of Zora Neale Hurston; white poets and novelists from Vachel Lindsay and Gertrude Stein to John Berryman and William Faulkner writing as if they were black; white artists and writers fascinated by hypersexualized stereotypes of black men; and nightmares and visions of the racechanged baby. Gubar shows that unlike African-Americans, who often are forced to adopt white masks to gain their rights, white people have chosen racial masquerades, which range from mockery and mimicry to an evolving emphasis on inter-racial mutuality and mutability. Drawing on a stunning array of illustrations, including paintings, film stills, computer graphics, and even magazine morphings, Racechanges sheds new light on the persistent pervasiveness of racism and exciting aesthetic possibilities for lessening the distance between blacks and whites.
Author : Amritjit Singh
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271044934
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781349629671
In Queering the Moderns, Anne Herrmann revisits the narrative of literary modernism and the historical uses of the term "queer" to explore the emergence of identities specific to modernism. "Queer" in the modernist period (1910-1945) means "strange, odd, out of sorts" and although it begins to refer to those who are queer sexually, it does not yet police a hetero-homosexual divide. It means crossing boundaries in unexpected directions, across the Atlantic, across the color line, across literary conventions that dictate autobiographies can't be written by someone else. Six memoirs that rely on cross-gender and cross-racial identifications are discussed within their specific cultural contexts so that female aviators (Amelia Earhart and Beryl Markham), "lesbian" auto/biographers (Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein) and male auto-ethnographers (James Weldon Johnson and Earl Lind - Ralph Werther) begin to "queer" the traditional spaces of modernism.