Description
Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking combination of social history and intellectual art criticism opens this powerful moment in history to renewed and dynamic interpretation and sharper discussion.
Trade ReviewAn articulate, thoughtful, and far-reaching collection, The Harlem Renaissance Revisited is a superb addition to American History and African-American studies shelves, and deserves the highest recommendation especially for college library collections. Midwest Book Review The Harlem Renaissance Revisited offers a rich and various account of how we might go into the future from that partially but unavoidably reimagined past. -- John Pistelli Rain Taxi Review of Books 2011 Ogbar creates a rich forum that has the potential to inform the future of the field. -- Ira Dworkin Melus 2011
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part I: Aesthetics and the New Negro
Chapter 1. African American Representations on the Stage: Minstrel Performances and Hurston's Dream of a "Real" Negro Theater
Chapter 2. No Negro Renaissance: Hubert H. Harrison and the Role of the New Negro Literary Critic
Chapter 3. It's All Sacred Music: Duke Ellington, from the Cotton Club to the Cathedral
Part II: Class and Place in Harlem
Chapter 4. "So the Girl Marries": Class, the Black Press, and the Du Bois – Cullen Wedding of 1928
Chapter 5. The Meaning and Significance of Southern Tradition in Rudolph Fisher's Stories
Chapter 6. Back to Harlem: Abstract and Everyday Labor during the Harlem Renaissance
Part III: Literary Icons Reconsidered
Chapter 7. Jessie Redmon Fauset Reconsidered
Chapter 8. Speak It into Existence: James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones and the Power of Self- Definition in the New Negro Harlem Renaissance
Chapter 9. Border Crossings: The Diasporic Travels of Claude McKay and Zora Neale Hurston
Chapter 10. The Search for Self in Wallace Thurman's The Blacker the Berry: Color, Class, and Community
Part IV: Gender Constructions
Chapter 11. Jack Johnson, Paul Robeson, and the Hypermasculine African American Übermensch
Chapter 12. Between Black Gay Men: Artistic Collaboration and the Harlem Renaissance in Brother to Brother
Part V: Politics and the New Negro
Chapter 13. Perspectives on Interwar Culture: Remapping the New Negro Era
Chapter 14. "Harlem Globe- Trotters": Black Sojourners in Stalin's Soviet Union
Afterword
List of Contributors
Index
