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Paperback. The Harlem Renaissance was the most significant event in African American intellectual and cultural life in the twentieth century. Editor(s): Wintz, Cary D. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 8. Weight in Grams: 328.
The Harlem Renaissance was the most significant event in African American intellectual and cultural life in the twentieth century. Its most obvious manifestation was in a self-conscious literary movement, but it touched almost every component of African American creative culture in the period from World War I through the Great Depression: music, the visual arts, theater, and literature. It also affected politics, social development, and almost every phase of the African American experience in the 1920s and 1930s.
The Harlem Renaissance was the most significant event in African American intellectual and cultural life in the twentieth century. Its most obvious manifestation was in a self-conscious literary movement, but it touched almost every component of African American creative culture in the period from World War I through the Great Depression: music, the visual arts, theater, and literature. It also affected politics, social development, and almost every phase of the African American experience in the 1920s and 1930s.
This anthology concentrates on the literary aspects of the Harlem Renaissance, though it does include several examples of the visual arts ... Read more
Concluding with a bibliography, this volume serves as a brief introduction to the Harlem Renaissance, its writers, and the rich body of literature they produced.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd Canada
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781881089674
SKU
V9781881089674
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99-50
About Wintz
Cary D. Wintz is Professor of History at Texas Southern University and author of Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance (1997), coauthor of Texas: The Lone Star State, Ninth Edition (2005), editor of African American Political Thought 1890-1930: Washington, Dubois, Garvey, and Randolph (1996), The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan by Thomas Dixon (new ed. 2000), ... Read more
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