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Classic Fiction of the Harlem Renaissance

William L. Andrews

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The first collection ever assembled of the most distinctive, influential, and widely appreciated novels and short stories of the Harlem Renaissance, this anthology opens a window on one of the most extraordinary assertions of racial self-consciousness in Western literature. With an insightful introduction to provide historical context and a lucid biographical headnote about each of the authors, this volume brings together under one cover the Harlem Renaissance literature most widely taught. Short stories include Sweat and The Gilded Six-Bits by Zora Neale Hurston, Rudolph Fisher's Miss Cynthie , and The Blues I'm Playing by Langston Hughes. The novels Home to Harlem by Claude McKay and Nella Larsen's Quicksand are featured in their entirety, along with major selections from Jean Toomer's Cane. Added features include a chapter from Wallace Thurman's Infants of the Spring , a notorious roman a clef about the Harlem Renaissance, and Rudolph Fisher's half tongue-in-cheek Introduction to Contemporary Harlemese, Expurgated and Abridged . For students and teachers alike, there can be no more effective or enjoyable way of exploring the intellectual concerns, the ideological perspectives, and the artistic innovations of the Harlem Renaissance.

Language: English

Pages: 416

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: May 12, 1994

ISBN: 019508196X

ISBN 13: 9780195081961

Classic Fiction of the Harlem Renaissance

William L. Andrews

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The first collection ever assembled of the most distinctive, influential, and widely appreciated novels and short stories of the Harlem Renaissance, this anthology opens a window on one of the most extraordinary assertions of racial self-consciousness in Western literature. With an insightful introduction to provide historical context and a lucid biographical headnote about each of the authors, this volume brings together under one cover the Harlem Renaissance literature most widely taught. Short stories include Sweat and The Gilded Six-Bits by Zora Neale Hurston, Rudolph Fisher's Miss Cynthie , and The Blues I'm Playing by Langston Hughes. The novels Home to Harlem by Claude McKay and Nella Larsen's Quicksand are featured in their entirety, along with major selections from Jean Toomer's Cane. Added features include a chapter from Wallace Thurman's Infants of the Spring , a notorious roman a clef about the Harlem Renaissance, and Rudolph Fisher's half tongue-in-cheek Introduction to Contemporary Harlemese, Expurgated and Abridged . For students and teachers alike, there can be no more effective or enjoyable way of exploring the intellectual concerns, the ideological perspectives, and the artistic innovations of the Harlem Renaissance.

Language: English

Pages: 416

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: May 12, 1994

ISBN: 019508196X

ISBN 13: 9780195081961

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