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, 1987.
Harris, Trudier, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 51. Gale Research, 1987.
51: 134
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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, 1987.
51: 135
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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.
qtd. in
Harris, Trudier, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 51. Gale Research, 1987.
51: 140
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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.
Nkosi, Lewis. “An UnAmerican in New York”. London Review of Books, 24 Aug. 2000, pp. 30-2.