Alain Locke

Standard Name: Locke, Alain

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Anthologization Zora Neale Hurston
ZNH published her short story Spunk in an edition of Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, and in Alain Locke 's groundbreaking anthology The New Negro.
Harris, Trudier, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 51. Gale Research.
51: 135
Education Zora Neale Hurston
ZNH studied under poet Georgia Douglas Johnson and philosopher Alain Locke at Howard University.
Harris, Trudier, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 51. Gale Research.
51: 134
Friends, Associates Zora Neale Hurston
ZNH was introduced to her future patron Charlotte Louise Mason , possibly by eminent philosopher (and her former instructor) Alain Locke .
Harris, Trudier, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 51. Gale Research.
51: 135
Textual Production Zora Neale Hurston
The novel was badly received by Hurston's contemporaries: Locke called it caricature instead of portraiture; Ralph Ellison commented that for Negro fiction it did nothing.
Harris, Trudier, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 51. Gale Research.
51: 140
More recent critics have called attention to...

Timeline

1925: Alain Locke wrote: Harlem has the same role...

Building item

1925

Alain Locke wrote: Harlem has the same role to play for the New Negro that Dublin has had for the New Ireland or Prague for the New Czechoslovakia.

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