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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      20 January 2021
      04 February 2021
      ISBN:
      9781108656313
      9781108493574
      9781108737449
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108656313
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.76kg, 452 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.731kg, 454 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature 1900-1945
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    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature 1900-1945
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    The Harlem Renaissance was the most influential single movement in African American literary history. The movement laid the groundwork for subsequent African American literature, and had an enormous impact on later black literature world-wide. In its attention to a wide range of genres and forms – from the roman à clef and the bildungsroman, to dance and book illustrations – this book seeks to encapsulate and analyze the eclecticism of Harlem Renaissance cultural expression. It aims to re-frame conventional ideas of the New Negro movement by presenting new readings of well-studied authors, such as Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, alongside analysis of topics, authors, and artists that deserve fuller treatment. An authoritative collection on the major writers and issues of the period, A History of the Harlem Renaissance takes stock of nearly a hundred years of scholarship and considers what the future augurs for the study of 'the New Negro'.

    Awards

    Short-listed, 2023 MSA Edition, Anthology, and Collection Prize (Biennial), The Modernist Studies Association

    Reviews

    ‘Highly recommended.’

    C. A. Bily Source: Choice

    ‘this is not your grandfather's Harlem Renaissance … At every turn and in every way ... A History of the Harlem Renaissance invites and inspires readers to reconceive and reimagine both the nature and the extent of Black modernist cultural production.’

    Tim Ryan Source: Style

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