Harlem Renaissance
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Nancy Cunard | Its history has been shaded by several complicating factors in its production: by the fact that NC
was a white upper-class British woman; and by its advocacy of communist revolution. Jane Marcus writes: Belittled by... |
Textual Production | Olaudah Equiano | OE
registered with the Stationers' Company
his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African, published by subscription for the Author (that is at his own risk)... |
Author summary | Zora Neale Hurston | ZNH
was an anthropologist who published articles on the subject of African-American folklore, and who also wrote plays, novels, short stories, political and cultural criticism, and an autobiography. She was a central contributor to the... |
Residence | Zora Neale Hurston | After Baltimore and Washington, ZNH
arrived in New York in early 1925 with the Harlem Renaissance
already underway. She lived there for the next quarter-century. |
Material Conditions of Writing | Zora Neale Hurston | As a formidably talented black writer living in New York during the period of the Harlem Renaissance
, ZNH
could neither ignore nor be ignored by the movement, but she found herself at odds with... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Una Marson | In the year leading up to this publication, UM
was reading (mostly male) African-American writers—Booker T. Washington
, James Weldon Johnson
, and |
Textual Production | Sylvia Pankhurst | In its latter years the Dreadnought took on a more literary tone, featuring stories by Anatole France
and poetry by Ezra Pound
. One of those who worked on it with SP
was Claude McKay |
Cultural formation | Eudora Welty | EW
's time in New York City was educational not only academically but also in broadening her cultural horizons. As a middle-class white in America's Deep South she had grown up among people whose outlook... |
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