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The Harlem Renaissance And The Idea Of A
Shawn Anthony Christian
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Description for The Harlem Renaissance And The Idea Of A
Paperback. Argues that print-based addresses to African Americans are a defining but under studied component of the Harlem Renaissance. Drawing on research from print culture studies, histories of racial uplift, and studies of modernism, Christian demonstrates the importance of this focus on the African American reader in influential periodicals. Series: Print Culture Studies. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFC; JFD; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.
Many scholars have written about the white readers and patrons of the Harlem Renaissance, but during the period many black writers, publishers, and editors worked to foster a cadre of African American readers, or in the poet Sterling Brown’s words, a “reading folk.” Black newspapers featured columns that reviewed the latest African American fiction. Magazines held writing contests to urge black readers to participate in the literary culture. Through newspapers, journals, and anthologies, writers such as James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Fauset, and Gwendolyn Bennett spoke directly to their fellow African Americans to cultivate interest in literature and the intellectual tools ... Read more
Many scholars have written about the white readers and patrons of the Harlem Renaissance, but during the period many black writers, publishers, and editors worked to foster a cadre of African American readers, or in the poet Sterling Brown’s words, a “reading folk.” Black newspapers featured columns that reviewed the latest African American fiction. Magazines held writing contests to urge black readers to participate in the literary culture. Through newspapers, journals, and anthologies, writers such as James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Fauset, and Gwendolyn Bennett spoke directly to their fellow African Americans to cultivate interest in literature and the intellectual tools ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
Series
Print Culture Studies
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781625342010
SKU
V9781625342010
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About Shawn Anthony Christian
Shawn Anthony Christian is associate professor of English, African American, and American studies at Wheaton College, USA.
Reviews for The Harlem Renaissance And The Idea Of A
Christian has produced an impeccably researched and illuminating study of reading and writing during the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance and the Idea of a New Negro Reader has great appeal for general readers interested in the Harlem Renaissance, the black press, literature of the twenties and thirties, and print culture studies.""—Verner Mitchell, author of This Waiting for Love: Helene ... Read more