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The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (Viking Portable Library) (edition 1994)

by David Lewis (Editor)

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The best literature that emerged from a flowering of African American culture centered in Harlem between the world wars.
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Title:The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (Viking Portable Library)
Authors:David Lewis
Info:Viking Adult (1994), Hardcover
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Tags:fiction, anthology, civil rights, racism, classic

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Gathering a representative sampling of the New Negro Movement's most important figures, and providing substantial introductory essays, headnotes, and brief biographical notes, Lewis' volume—organized chronologically—includes the poetry and prose of Sterling Brown, Countee Cullen, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, and others.
  PendleHillLibrary | Sep 17, 2022 |
An interesting historical record. But the entries themselves were not that great ( )
  mahallett | Feb 16, 2016 |
includes short stories & essays by WEB DuBois, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, Nora Zeale Hurston, and Angelina Grimke. a good collection from a rich period in American literature ( )
1 vote beau.p.laurence | Jul 23, 2006 |
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  • Part I: Essays and Memoirs
    • Returning Soldiers / W.E.B. Du Bois
    • The Migration of the Talented Tenth / Carter G. Woodson
    • Gift of the Black Tropics / W.A. Domingo
    • Africa for the Africans / Marcus Garvey
    • Liberty Hall Emancipation Day Speech / Marcus Garvey
    • On Marcus Garvey / Mary White Ovington
    • Extract from Black Manhattan / James Weldon Johnson
    • The New Negro / Alain Locke
    • Jazz at Home / Joel A. Rogers
    • Reflections on O'Neill's Plays / Paul Robeson
    • The Negro Digs Up His Past / Arthur A. Schomburg
    • The Task of Negro Womanhood / Elise Johnson McDougald
    • Harlem Literati extract from The Big Sea: When the Negro Was in Vogue / Langston Hughes
    • Parties extract from The Big Sea: When the Negro Was in Vogue / Langston Hughes
    • The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain / Langston Hughes
    • The Negro-Art Hokum / George S. Schuyler
    • Criteria of Negro Art / W.E.B. Du Bois
    • Critiques of Carl Van Vechten's Nigger Heaven / W.E.B. Du Bois and J.W. Johnson
    • The Caucasian Storms Harlem / Rudolph Fisher
    • Aaron Douglas Chats about the Harlem Renaissance / Aaron Douglas
    • Negro Art and America / Albert C. Barnes
    • The Negro Takes His Place in American Art / Alain Locke
    • The Negro Artist and Modern Art / Romare Bearden
    • Extract from Dust Tracks on a Road / Zora Neale Hurston
    • The New Negro in Paris extract from A Long Way from Home / Claude McKay
    • La Bourgeoisie Noire / E. Franklin Frazier
    • With Langston Hughes in the USSR / Louise Thompson Patterson
    • Harlem Runs Wild / Claude McKay
    • Blueprint for Negro Writing / Richard Wright
    • The Negro Renaissance and Its Significance / Charles S. Johnson
  • Part II: Poetry
    • Song / Gwendolyn Bennett
    • Hatred / Gwendolyn Bennett
    • The Day-Breakers / Arna Bontemps
    • Golgotha is a Mountain / Arna Bontemps
    • Southern Road / Sterling Brown
    • Odyssey of Big Boy / Sterling Brown
    • Frankie and Johnny / Sterling Brown
    • Ma Rainey / Sterling Brown
    • Long Gone / Sterling Brown
    • Georgie Grimes / Sterling Brown
    • Remembering Nat Turner / Sterling Brown
    • The Young Voice Cries / Mae Cowdery
    • The Wayside Well / Joseph S. Cotter
    • For a Lady I Know / Countee Cullen
    • Incident / Countee Cullen
    • Harlem Wine / Countee Cullen
    • Yet Do I Marvel / Countee Cullen
    • Heritage / Countee Cullen
    • From the Dark Tower / Countee Cullen
    • To a Brown Boy / Countee Cullen
    • Tableau / Countee Cullen
    • Saturday's Child / Countee Cullen
    • Two Poets / Countee Cullen
    • To France / Countee Cullen
    • Nothing Endures / Countee Cullen
    • Requiescam / Countee Cullen
    • The Death Bed / Waring Cuney
    • La Vie c'est la Vie / Jessie Redmon Fauset
    • Dead Fires / Jessie Redmon Fauset
    • The Negro Speaks of Rivers / Langston Hughes
    • I, Too / Langston Hughes
    • America / Langston Hughes
    • The Weary Blues / Langston Hughes
    • Jazzonia / Langston Hughes
    • Mother to Son / Langston Hughes
    • Negro / Langston Hughes
    • Mulatto / Langston Hughes
    • Elevator Boy / Langston Hughes
    • Red Silk Stockings / Langston Hughes
    • Ruby Brown / Langston Hughes
    • Elderly Race Leaders / Langston Hughes
    • Dream Variation / Langston Hughes
    • Goodbye, Christ / Langston Hughes
    • Advertisement for the Waldorf-Astoria / Langston Hughes
    • Children of the Sun / Fenton Johnson
    • The Banjo Player / Fenton Johnson
    • Let Me Not Lose My Dream / Georgia Douglas Johnson
    • Old Black Men / Georgia Douglas Johnson
    • Black Woman / Georgia Douglas Johnson
    • The Heart of a Woman / Georgia Douglas Johnson
    • I Want to Die While You Love Me / Georgia Douglas Johnson
    • My Race / Helene Johnson
    • A Southern Road / Helene Johnson
    • Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem / Helene Johnson
    • Poem / Helene Johnson
    • The White Witch / James Weldon Johnson
    • The Color Sergeant / James Weldon Johnson
    • O Black and Unknown Bards / James Weldon Johnson
    • Go Down Death / James Weldon Johnson
    • The Creation / James Weldon Johnson
    • If We Must Die / Claude McKay
    • Baptism / Claude McKay
    • The White House / Claude McKay
    • The Negro's Friend / Claude McKay
    • On a Primitive Canoe / Claude McKay
    • The Tropics in New York / Claude McKay
    • When Dawn Comes to the City / Claude McKay
    • The Desolate City / Claude McKay
    • The Harlem Dancer / Claude McKay
    • St. Isaac's Church, Petrograd / Claude McKay
    • Barcelona / Claude McKay
    • Lady, Lady / Anne Spencer
    • Song of the Son / Jean Toomer
    • Georgia Dusk / Jean Toomer
    • The Blue Meridian / Jean Toomer
  • Part III: Fiction
    • Extract from The Emperor Jones / Eugene O'Neill
    • Extracts from Cane: Karintha, Fern, Bona and Paul / Jean Toomer
    • Extract from Birthright / T.S. Stribling
    • Extract from There Is Confusion / Jessie Redmon Fauset
    • Extract from Plum Bun / Jessie Redmon Fauset
    • Extract from The Fire in the Flint / Walter White
    • Wedding Day / Gwendolyn Bennett
    • Snowstorm in Pittsburgh, extract from Home to Harlem / Claude McKay
    • Spring in Harlem, extract from Home to Harlem / Claude McKay
    • Banjo's Ace of Spades, extract from Banjo / Claude McKay
    • Extract from Banana Bottom / Claude McKay
    • Extract from Quicksand / Nella Larsen
    • Extract from Passing / Nella Larsen
    • Extract from The Closing Door / Angelina Weld Grimké
    • The Typewriter / Dorothy West
    • Extract from The Dark Princess / W.E.B. Du Bois
    • Extract from The Walls of Jericho / Rudolph Fisher
    • The Wharf Rats, extract from Tropic Death / Eric Walrond
    • The Yellow One, extract from Tropic Death / Eric Walrond
    • Smoke, Lillies and Jade / Richard Bruce Nugent
    • Luani of the Jungles / Langston Hughes
    • Thursday Afternoon, extract from Not Without Laughter / Langston Hughes
    • Father and Son, extract from The Ways of White Folks / Langston Hughes
    • The Blues I'm Playing, extract from The Ways of White Folks / Langston Hughes
    • Cordelia the Crude / Wallace Thurman
    • Harlem: A Forum of Negro Life / Wallace Thurman
    • Extract from The Blacker the Berry / Wallace Thurman
    • Extract from Infants of the Spring / Wallace Thurman
    • Extract from Black No More / George Schuyler
    • Extract from God Sends Sunday / Arna Bontemps
    • Extract from Black Thunder / Arna Bontemps
    • Extract from One Way to Heaven / Countee Cullen
    • Drenched in Light / Zora Neale Hurston
    • Color Struck / Zora Neale Hurston
    • Extract from Jonah's Gourd Vine / Zora Neale Hurston
    • Extract from Mule-Bone / Zora Neale Hurston with Langston Hughes
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