Alain Locke

Standard Name: Locke, Alain

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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
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
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
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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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