Rediscovering The Harlem Renaissance

Author : Eloise E. Johnson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : African American arts
ISBN : 081532278X

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Rediscovering the Harlem Renaissance by Eloise E. Johnson Pdf

This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors. Miola's edited work also features a comprehensive critical history, coupled with a full bibliography and photographs of major productions of the play from around the world. In the collection, there are five previously unpublished essays. The topics covered in these new essays are women in the play, the play's debt to contemporary theater, its critical and performance histories in Germany and Japan, the metrical variety of the play, and the distinctly modern perspective on the play as containing dark and disturbing elements. To compliment these new essays, the collection features significant scholarship and commentary on The Comedy of Errors that is published in obscure and difficulty accessible journals, newspapers, and other sources. This collection brings together these essays for the first time.

Author : Richard LaMonte Pierce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1889534862

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Rediscovering the Harlem Renaissance by Richard LaMonte Pierce Pdf

Collection of essays, poetry, short stories, plays.

Author : Cary D. Wintz,Paul Finkelman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : African American arts
ISBN : 1579584578

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Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance: A-J by Cary D. Wintz,Paul Finkelman Pdf

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 Encyclopedia of Harlem Renaissance website.

Author : Maria Diedrich,Jürgen Heinrichs
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9783643101099

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From Black to Schwarz by Maria Diedrich,Jürgen Heinrichs Pdf

From Black to Schwarz explores the long and varied history of the exchanges between African America and Germany with a particular focus on cultural interplay. Covering a wide range of media of expression - music, performance, film, scholarship, literature, visual arts, reviews - the essays collected in this volume trace and analyze a cultural interaction, collaboration and mutual transformation that began in the eighteenth century, literally boomed during the Harlem Renaissance/Weimar Republic, could not even be liquidated by the Third Reich's `Degenerate Art' campaigns, and, with new media available to further exchanges, is still increasingly empowering and inspiring participants on both sides of the Atlantic.

Author : James Vernon Hatch,Leo Hamalian
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0814325807

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Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940 by James Vernon Hatch,Leo Hamalian Pdf

The topics of the plays cover the realm of the human experience in styles as wide-ranging as poetry, farce, comedy, tragedy, social realism, and romance. Individual introductions to each play provide essential biographical background on the playwrights.

Author : George Hutchinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0521673682

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The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance by George Hutchinson Pdf

This 2007 Companion is a comprehensive guide to the key authors and works of the African American literary movement.

Author : Thomas J. Davis,Brenda M. Brock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216075752

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Documents of the Harlem Renaissance by Thomas J. Davis,Brenda M. Brock Pdf

This book explores the transformative energy and excitement that African Americans expressed in aesthetic and civic currents that percolated during the opening of the 20th century and proved to be a force in the modernization of America. This engaging reference text represents the voices of the era in poetry and prose, in full or excerpted from anecdotes, editorials, essays, manifestoes, orations, and reminiscences, with appearances by major figures and often overlooked contributors to the Harlem Renaissance. Organized topically and, within topics, chronologically, the volume reaches beyond the typical representation of the spirit and substance of the movement, examinations of which are typically confined to the New York City community and from U.S. entry into World War I in 1917 to the depths of the Great Depression in 1935. It carries readers from the opening of the Harlem Renaissance, which began at the top of the 20th century, to its heights in the 1920s and '30s and through to its artistic and literary echoes in the shadows of World War II (1939–1945).

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780791076798

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The Harlem Renaissance by Harold Bloom Pdf

Harlem in the 1920s and '30s was the epicenter of a flourishing in African-American literature with the poetry and prose of Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Claude McKay, to name a few. This volume examines the defining themes and styles of African-American literature during this period, which laid the groundwork for contemporary African-American writers.

Author : Vincent L. Wimbush
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725230897

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African Americans and the Bible by Vincent L. Wimbush Pdf

Perhaps no other group of people has been as much formed by biblical texts and tropes as African Americans. From literature and the arts to popular culture and everyday life, the Bible courses through black society and culture like blood through veins. Despite the enormous recent interest in African American religion, relatively little attention has been paid to the diversity of ways in which African Americans have utilized the Bible. African Americans and the Bible is the fruit of a four-year collaborative research project directed by Vincent L. Wimbush and funded by the Lilly Endowment. It brings together scholars and experts (sixty-eight in all) from a wide range of academic and artistic fields and disciplines--including ethnography, cultural history, and biblical studies as well as art, music, film, dance, drama, and literature. The focus is on the interaction between the people known as African Americans and that complex of visions, rhetorics, and ideologies known as the Bible. As such, the book is less about the meaning(s) of the Bible than about the Bible and meaning(s), less about the world(s) of the Bible than about how worlds and the Bible interact--in short, about how a text constructs a people and a people constructs a text. It is about a particular sociocultural formation but also about the dynamics that obtain in the interrelation between any group of people and sacred texts in general. Thus African Americans and the Bible provides an exemplum of sociocultural formation and a critical lens through which the process of sociocultural formation can be viewed.

Author : Joseph Luzzi
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781324004028

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Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance by Joseph Luzzi Pdf

A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 “Brilliantly conceived and executed, Botticelli's Secret is a riveting search for buried treasure.” —Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve Some five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created works of unearthly beauty. A star of Florence’s art world, he was commissioned by a member of the city’s powerful Medici family to execute a near-impossible project: to illustrate all one hundred cantos of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, the ultimate visual homage to that “divine” poet. This sparked a gripping encounter between poet and artist, between the religious and the secular, between the earthly and the evanescent, recorded in exquisite drawings by Botticelli that now enchant audiences worldwide. Yet after a lifetime of creating masterpieces including Primavera and The Birth of Venus, Botticelli declined into poverty and obscurity. His Dante project remained unfinished. Then the drawings vanished for over four hundred years. The once famous Botticelli himself was forgotten. The nineteenth-century rediscovery of Botticelli’s Dante drawings brought scholars and art lovers to their knees: this work embodied everything the Renaissance had come to mean. From Botticelli’s metaphorical rise from the dead in Victorian England to the emergence of eagle-eyed connoisseurs like Bernard Berenson and Herbert Horne in the early twentieth century, and even the rescue of precious art during World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the posthumous story of Botticelli’s Dante drawings is, if anything, even more dramatic than their creation. A combination of artistic detective story and rich intellectual history, Botticelli’s Secret shows not only how the Renaissance came to life, but also how Botticelli’s art helped bring it about—and, most important, why we need the Renaissance and all that it stands for today.

Author : Cheryl A. Wall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : LITERARY COLLECTIONS
ISBN : 9780199335558

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The Harlem Renaissance by Cheryl A. Wall Pdf

This Very Short Introduction offers an overview of the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural awakening among African Americans between the two world wars. Cheryl A. Wall brings readers to the Harlem of 1920s to identify the cultural themes and issues that engaged writers, musicians, and visual artists alike

Author : Laban Carrick Hill
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780316040488

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Harlem Stomp! by Laban Carrick Hill Pdf

When it was released in 2004, Harlem Stomp! was the first trade book to bring the Harlem Renaissance alive for young adults! Meticulously researched and lavishly illustrated, the book is a veritable time capsule packed with poetry, prose, photographs, full-color paintings, and reproductions of historical documents. Now, after more than three years in hardcover, three starred reviews and a National Book Award nomination, Harlem Stomp! is being released in paperback.

Author : Georgia Douglas Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035045116

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An Autumn Love Cycle by Georgia Douglas Johnson Pdf

Author : Genevià ̈ve Fabre,Michel Feith
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253109101

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Temples for Tomorrow by Genevià ̈ve Fabre,Michel Feith Pdf

The Harlem Renaissance is rightly considered to be a moment of creative exuberance and unprecedented explosion. Today, there is a renewed interest in this movement, calling for a re-evaluation and a closer scrutiny of the era and of documents that have only recently become available. Temples for Tomorrow reconsiders the period -- between two world wars -- which confirmed the intuitions of W. E. B. DuBois on the "color line" and gave birth to the "American dilemma," later evoked by Gunnar Myrdal. Issuing from a generation bearing new hopes and aspirations, a new vision takes form and develops around the concept of the New Negro, with a goal: to recreate an African American identity and claim its legitimate place in the heart of the nation. In reality, this movement organized into a remarkable institutional network, which was to remain the vision of an elite, but which gave birth to tensions and differences. This collection attempts to assess Harlem's role as a "Black Mecca", as "site of intimate performance" of African American life, and as focal point in the creation of a diasporic identity in dialogue with the Caribbean and French-speaking areas. Essays treat the complex interweaving of Primitivism and Modernism, of folk culture and elitist aspirations in different artistic media, with a view to defining the interaction between music, visual arts, and literature. Also included are known Renaissance intellectuals and writers. Even though they had different conceptions of the role of the African American artist in a racially segregated society, most participants in the New Negro movement shared a desire to express a new assertiveness in terms of literary creation and indentity-building.

Author : Eric L. Haralson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2479 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317763215

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Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century by Eric L. Haralson Pdf

The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.