Encyclopedia of the Harlem Literary Renaissance
evocative of the vivid cultural imagery found in works by CLAUDEMCKAYand Countee Cullen. Hayford was a writer who paid attention ...
———. Harlem’s Glory: Black Women Writing, 1900–1950. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. Heart of a Woman and Other Poems ...
confesses the speaker, “and calm / Amid my own heart’s dearth.” JESSIE FAUSET’s review of The Heart of a Womanappeared in the Oc ...
suggest that it is not the product of Spence’s “spir- ited pen” (295). The play features five characters, all of whom are caught ...
Bibliography Roses, Lorraine Elena, and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph. Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Blac ...
dreams that “bring... rubies from remote con- fines” and “throw conditions to the winds.” His in- tense personification of dream ...
Bibliography Roses, Lorraine Elena, and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph. Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Blac ...
Herskovits. In 1934, Hurston seriously considered relocating to Evanston, where she could further in- tensify her work with the ...
Eight years later, in October 1935, the Gersh- win production of Porgy and Bessopened at the Alvin Theatre in New York City. In ...
talented performer Ethel Waters. When it opened at the Empire Theatre in New York City, the play had historic significance. Wate ...
Instead, it suggests the awful isolation that can persist for artists of color in the midst of seeming success. Bibliography Coo ...
Hill, Leslie Pinckney (1880–1960) A HARVARDUNIVERSITY–educated teacher and poet from Lynchburg, Virginia. The son of Samuel and ...
men.” Hill uses images of blackness to underscore the depravity and unenlightened state of the lynch mob. Their “black design” i ...
Toomer’s much-celebrated work Cane.Toomer’s work, which included evocative portraits of south- ern life, also confronted the spe ...
judges, awarded the prize to recognize literary ex- cellence by Harlem Renaissance writers. Holstein, a native of St. Croix, ent ...
Thurman, and Margaret Murray Washington. Other entries included profiles of the writers Phillis Wheatley, Frances Harper, and El ...
Wordsworth’s poems, the real rather than stereo- typed Africa, the French Revolution, and of Tous- saint Louverture. In response ...
Giles, James R. Claude McKay.Boston: Twayne Publish- ers, 1976. McKay, Claude. Home to Harlem.Boston: Northeastern University Pr ...
the summers of 1897 and 1898 at the UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO before returning to Providence, Rhode Island, to complete his master’s ...
peared in The Crisisin 1912–13, “Hope Deferred” focuses on the ambitions of an engineer, a talented man who is denied employment ...
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