The Harlem Renaissance

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Harold Bloom
Infobase Publishing, 2004 - African Americans - 336 pages
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Presents essays that document the origins and influence of the Harlem Renaissance, focusing on key writing figures and artists and the many challenges they faced.
 

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Contents

Introduction
1
Harlem Renaissance Reexamined
5
The Shape and Shapersof the Movement
13
BlackWhite Symbiosis
23
Evolution of the Poetic Persona
35
White Patronage in the Harlem Renaissance
53
Color Sex and Poetryin the Harlem Renaissance
67
Black Autobiography and the Comic Vision
99
The Pulseof the Negro World
179
The Negro Authorand His Publisher
195
Aspects of Identityin Nella Larsens Novels
207
Women poets of the Harlem Renaissance
223
Masks and Masquerade
243
Toomers Caneand the Harlem Renaissance
255
The Syncopated African
275
Chronology
295

Harlem and the FirstBlack Renaissance
113
Reading the Harlem Renaissance
123
From Black Manhattan
149
The New Negro
161
The Negro Renaissanceand Its Significance
167
Contributors
301
Bibliography
305
Acknowledgments
315
Index
319
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About the author (2004)

Harold Bloom was born on July 11, 1930 in New York City. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Cornell in 1951 and his Doctorate from Yale in 1955. After graduating from Yale, Bloom remained there as a teacher, and was made Sterling Professor of Humanities in 1983. Bloom's theories have changed the way that critics think of literary tradition and has also focused his attentions on history and the Bible. He has written over twenty books and edited countless others. He is one of the most famous critics in the world and considered an expert in many fields. In 2010 he became a founding patron of Ralston College, a new institution in Savannah, Georgia, that focuses on primary texts. His works include Fallen Angels, Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems, Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life and The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of The King James Bible. Harold Bloom passed away on October 14, 2019 in New Haven, at the age of 89.

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TitleThe Harlem Renaissance
Bloom's period studies
EditorHarold Bloom
Editionillustrated
PublisherInfobase Publishing, 2004
ISBN0791076792, 9780791076798
Length336 pages
  
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