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Book SynopsisThis anthology seeks to revolutionize the way the Harlem Renaissance is viewed. It seeks to redress the emphasis on male writers, offering a balanced collection of writers - men and women, gay and straight, famiiar and obscure. It includes poetry, short stories, drama, essays, music and art.
Trade ReviewWith this new anthology of Harlem Renaissance literature, Patton (
Women in Chains: The Legacy of Slavery in Black Women's Fiction) and Honey (editor,
Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance), both at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, attempt to "restore and underline the importance of women's writing" and sexual orientation to the Harlem Renaissance. The balanced selection of women and men is similar to that found in Henry Louis Gates's
Norton Anthology of African American Literature but the inclusion of lesser-known figures and works is aimed at focusing on the ideology of the renaissance, gay and lesbian themes, and differences in gender-based issues. Countee Cullen, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston are among the authors represented, and the selected works include essays, poetry, prose, and drama, with lyrics and visual art used as illustration. The editors also break with the tendency to define the beginning and end of the renaissance with political events by focusing on specific literary works, which allows them to broaden the period to 1916-37. Both editors have done previous research in the field of African American women's literature and include a biographical sketch of each writer to underline how their gender, class, and sexual orientation shaped their work. Necessary for all academic libraries.
* Library Journal *
With this new anthology of Harlem Renaissance literature, Patton (
Women in Chains: The Legacy of Slavery in Black Women's Fiction) and Honey (editor,
Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance), both at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, attempt to "restore and underline the importance of women's writing" and sexual orientation to the Harlem Renaissance. The balanced selection of women and men is similar to that found in Henry Louis Gates's
Norton Anthology of African American Literature but the inclusion of lesser-known figures and works is aimed at focusing on the ideology of the renaissance, gay and lesbian themes, and differences in gender-based issues. Countee Cullen, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston are among the authors represented, and the selected works include essays, poetry, prose, and drama, with lyrics and visual art used as illustration. The editors also break with the tendency to define the beginning and end of the renaissance with political events by focusing on specific literary works, which allows them to broaden the period to 1916-37. Both editors have done previous research in the field of African American women's literature and include a biographical sketch of each writer to underline how their gender, class, and sexual orientation shaped their work. Necessary for all academic libraries.
* Library Journal *
Double-Take is a thick, rich stew of an anthology. It will compel a reevaluation of our most common assumptions about the Harlem Renaissance. -- Deborah McDowell * University of Virginia *
Double-Take truly is a revisionist anthology - with attention to scores of minor figures, especially women. The essays and illustrations, juxtaposed with poems and short fiction, will allow the student to appreciate the Harlem Renaissance in its multiple dimensions. -- Amritjit Singh * author of The Novels of the Harlem Renaissance *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Song Lyrics
Acknowledgements
Introduction
A Note on the Text
Chronology
ESSAYS
Alain Locke
A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen
William Stanley Braithwaite
Ruth Whitehead Whaley
James Weldon Johnson
Brenda Ray Moryck
George S. Schuyler
Langston Hughes
Amy Jacques Garvey
W.E.B. DuBois
Richard Wright
Zora Neale Hurston
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Marcus Garvey
W. A. Domingo
Randolph Fisher
Elsie Johnson McDougald
Marita O. Bonner
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Marion Vera Cuthbert
Alain Locke
Joel E. Rogers
Gwendolyn B. Bennett
CREATIVE WRITING
James Weldon Johnson
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Angelina Weld Grimke
Anne Spencer
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Effie Lee Newsome (aka Mary Effie Lee)
John F. Matheus
Fenton Johnson
Claude McKay
Willis Richardson
Anita Scott Coleman
Zora Neale Hurston
Nella Larsen
Eulaine Spence
Jean Toomer
Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr.
Randolph Fisher
Eric Walrond
May Miller
Marita O. Bonner
Sterling A. Brown
Langston Hughes
Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Wallace Thurman
Arna Bontemps
Countee Cullen
Gladys May Casely Hayford (aka Aquah Laluah)
(William) Waring Cuney
Richard Bruce Nugent (aka Richard Bruce)
Dorothy West
Helene Johnson
Mae V. Cowdery
Bibligoraphy
Credits
Index of Writers and Artists
