Encyclopedia of the Harlem Literary Renaissance
American Mercury A monthly literary magazine founded by H. L. MENCKEN, journalist, and George Jean Nathan, theater critic, in 19 ...
published UNCOMMONSENSE(1937) and traveled to England. He invented a popular malted milk beverage during his sojourn in London. ...
both WILBERFORCEUNIVERSITYand the UNIVER- SITY OFCHICAGO. She earned her master’s in li- brary science from the Library School o ...
continued interest in African-American social and political dilemmas and self-determination. She continued to publish well after ...
“Antropoi”John F. Matheus(1928) A short story by JOHNF. MATHEUSset in the West Virginia countryside that addresses the tension b ...
has deserted her husband and young son, accosts him on the street. She demands money from Sanderson, and, when he refuses her, s ...
other Harlem Renaissance writers such as COUN- TEECULLENand WILLIAMSTANLEYBRAITHWAITE who stressed the importance of recognizing ...
Lewis, David Levering. W. E. B. DuBois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919.New York: Henry Holt and Com- pany, 1993. Atlanta Univers ...
The three characters, identified only by the generic titles “The Woman,” “The Man,” and “The Waitress,” speculate about whether ...
worthy son, is set forth in a sequence of events that recall the tragic realism of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Sport of the Gods(1902 ...
Goellnicht, Donald. “Passing as Autobiography: James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex- Coloured Man.” African America ...
sess / With some resplendent loveliness.” The sec- tion closes as the speaker reaches a distressing but ultimately helpful state ...
“Backslider, The”Rudolph Fisher(1927) An engaging story by RUDOLPHFISHERpublished in 1927, the year in which he began his NEWYOR ...
Bibliography Fisher, Rudolph. “The Backslider.” In The Short Fiction of Rudolph Fisher,edited by Margaret Perry. Columbia: Unive ...
Potter Baker. He grew up in Lansing, Michigan, and maintained close links to his home state. He gradu- ated in 1889 from Michiga ...
BROTHERS, to Witter Bynner. His brother Charles provided the illustrations and evocative decora- tions in the volume. The Ballad ...
private. It is her grand, though publicly unacknowl- edged, ancestry that enables her to rage at injustice but control her passi ...
theater or our imagination” and that, as such, presents a mighty challenge to a “flesh-and-blood actor” who aspires to fill the ...
McKay, Claude. Banana Bottom. 1933, reprint, Chatham, N.J.: The Chatham Bookseller, 1970. Singh, Amritjit. The Novels of the Har ...
spite of an occasional internal formlessness deriving from apostrophes to jazz rhythms, Banjohas definite form.” “The book follo ...
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