The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance

The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance
Author: George Hutchinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2007-06-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521673686

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

The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance

The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance
Author: George Hutchinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2007-06-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139827723

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The Harlem Renaissance (1918–1937) was the most influential single movement in African American literary history. Its key figures include W. E. B. Du Bois, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, and Langston Hughes. The movement laid the groundwork for all later African American literature, and had an enormous impact on later black literature world-wide. With chapters by a wide range of well-known scholars, this 2007 Companion is an authoritative and engaging guide to the movement. It first discusses the historical contexts of the Harlem Renaissance, both national and international; then presents original discussions of a wide array of authors and texts; and finally treats the reputation of the movement in later years. Giving full play to the disagreements and differences that energized the renaissance, this Companion presents a set of new readings encouraging further exploration of this dynamic field.

The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance

The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance
Author: George Hutchinson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2007
Genre: African American aesthetics
ISBN: 9781139817561

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The Harlem Renaissance (1918-1937) was the most influential single movement in African American literary history. With chapters by a wide range of well-known scholars, this text is an authoritative and engaging guide to the movement.

The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre

The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre
Author: Harvey Young
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2023-05-31
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1009359584

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This new edition provides an expanded, comprehensive history of African American theatre, from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Including discussions of slave rebellions on the national stage, African Americans on Broadway, the Harlem Renaissance, African American women dramatists, and the New Negro and Black Arts movements, the Companion also features fresh chapters on significant contemporary developments, such as the influence of the Black Lives Matter movement, the mainstream successes of Black Queer Drama and the evolution of African American Dance Theatre. Leading scholars spotlight the producers, directors, playwrights, and actors who have fashioned a more accurate appearance of Black life on stage, revealing the impact of African American theatre both within the United States and around the world. Addressing recent theatre productions in the context of political and cultural change, it invites readers to reflect on where African American theatre is heading in the twenty-first century.

The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature

The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature
Author: Angelyn Mitchell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2009-04-30
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0521858887

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The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature covers a period dating back to the eighteenth century. These specially commissioned essays highlight the artistry, complexity and diversity of a literary tradition that ranges from Lucy Terry to Toni Morrison. A wide range of topics are addressed, from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement, and from the performing arts to popular fiction. Together, the essays provide an invaluable guide to a rich, complex tradition of women writers in conversation with each other as they critique American society and influence American letters. Accessible and vibrant, with the needs of undergraduate students in mind, this Companion will be of great interest to anybody who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of this important and vital area of American literature.

The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry

The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry
Author: Alex Davis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2007-07-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139827642

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This Companion offers the most comprehensive overview available of modernist poetry, its forms, its major authors and its contexts. The first part explores the historical and cultural contexts and sexual politics of literary modernism and the avant garde. The chapters in the second part concentrate on individual authors and movements, while the concluding part offers a comprehensive overview of the early reception and subsequent canonisation of modernist poetry. As well as insightful readings of canonical poets, the Companion features extended discussions of poets whose importance is now being increasingly recognised, such as Mina Loy, poets of the Harlem Renaissance, and postcolonial poets in the Caribbean, Africa and India. While modernist poets are often thought of as difficult, these essays will help students to understand and enjoy their experimental, playful and fascinating responses to contemporary social and cultural change and their dialogue with the arts and with each other.

A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance

A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance
Author: Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2015-05-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1118494148

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A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance presents acomprehensive collection of original essays that address theliterature and culture of the Harlem Renaissance from the end ofWorld War I to the middle of the 1930s. Represents the most comprehensive coverage of themes and uniquenew perspectives on the Harlem Renaissance available Features original contributions from both emerging scholars ofthe Harlem Renaissance and established academic “stars”in the field Offers a variety of interdisciplinary features, such as thesection on visual and expressive arts, that emphasize thecollaborative nature of the era Includes “Spotlight Readings” featuring lesserknown figures of the Harlem Renaissance and newly discovered orundervalued writings by canonicalfigures

The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Renaissance

The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Renaissance
Author: Christopher N. Phillips
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2018-03-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108372813

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The American Renaissance has been a foundational concept in American literary history for nearly a century. The phrase connotes a period, as well as an event, an iconic turning point in the growth of a national literature and a canon of texts that would shape American fiction, poetry, and oratory for generations. F. O. Matthiessen coined the term in 1941 to describe the years 1850–1855, which saw the publications of major writings by Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. This Companion takes up the concept of the American Renaissance and explores its origins, meaning, and longevity. Essays by distinguished scholars move chronologically from the formative reading of American Renaissance authors to the careers of major figures ignored by Matthiessen, including Stowe, Douglass, Harper, and Longfellow. The volume uses the best of current literary studies, from digital humanities to psychoanalytic theory, to illuminate an era that reaches far beyond the Civil War and continues to shape our understanding of American literature.

The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights

The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights
Author: Brenda Murphy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1999-06-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521576802

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This volume addresses the work of women playwrights throughout the history of the American theatre, from the early pioneers to contemporary feminists. Each chapter introduces the reader to the work of one or more playwrights and to a way of thinking about plays. Together they cover significant writers such as Rachel Crothers, Susan Glaspell, Lillian Hellman, Sophie Treadwell, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, Megan Terry, Ntozake Shange, Adrienne Kennedy, Wendy Wasserstein, Marsha Norman, Beth Henley and Maria Irene Fornes. Playwrights are discussed in the context of topics such as early comedy and melodrama, feminism and realism, the Harlem Renaissance, the feminist resurgence of the 1970s and feminist dramatic theory. A detailed chronology and illustrations enhance the volume, which also includes bibliographical essays on recent criticism and on African-American women playwrights before 1930.