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Critical Insights: Harlem Renaissance

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The Harlem Renaissance: The New Negro Intellectual and the Poetry of the Sociopolitical Imagination




Dawn in Harlem: Exploring the Origins of the Harlem Renaissance through Image and Text




Apathetic Critiques Revisited: Jean Toomer's Cane and Its Importance to the Harlem Renaissance




Sugar Cane and Women's Identity in Selected Works of Zora Neale Hurston




Mobile Subjects in Faulkner, Larsen, and Thurman: Racial Parody and the White Northern Literary Field




“Hectic Rhythms”: Unseen and Unappreciated Knowledge in Harlem Renaissance Fiction




Toward a Theory of Art as Propaganda: Re-Evaluating the Political Novels of the Harlem Renaissance




“The Bitter River”: Langston Hughes and the Violent South




Racial Connections in “Time Space”: A Chronotopic Approach to Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man




Framing Racial Identity and Class: Magnifying Themes of Assimilation and Passing in the Works of Johnson and Hughes




“Why Hadn't She Spoken That Day?”: The Destructive Power of Racial Silence in Nella Larsen's Passing




Just Passing Through: The Harlem Renaissance Woman on the Move




Grimké's Sentimentalism in Rachel: Subversion as an Act of Feminism




Where is that “Ark uv Safty”? Tracing the Role of the Black Woman as Protector in Georgia Douglas Johnson's Plays




“Don't knock at my door, little child”: The Mantled Poetics of Georgia Douglas Johnson's Motherhood Poetry




Writing Across the Color Line: Carl Van Vechten's Nigger Heaven and the Insatiable Hunger for Literature of Black American Life




Dancing Between Cultures: Claude McKay and the Harlem Renaissance




“Blue Smoke” and “Stale Fried Fish”: A Decadent View of Richard Bruce Nugent




Going Back to Work Through: The Return to Folk Origins in the Late Harlem Renaissance




Chronology of the Harlem Renaissance




Works of the Harlem Renaissance




Bibliography




About the Editor




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