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Afro-American writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940 by Trudier Harris; associate editor, Thadious M. Davis is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This volume-one of six DLB volumes discussing African-American writers-represents a peak period in African-American literary activity sometimes called the Harlem Renaissance or New Negro era, and lasting from about 1915 to the early 30s. During this time, African-American artists and writers from cities all around the U.S. flocked to Harlem and began a decade of striving to change popular perceptions of their people. As Trudier Harris describes the writers of this period in the volumes They sought...to change racist attitudes but to preserve African heritage, to diminish isolation between races but to nurture distinctive racial characteristics. 34 entries Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Georgia Douglas Johnson, ClaudeMcKay, George Samuel Schuyler, Jean Toomer and Walter Francis White.

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Author

Trudier Harris; associate editor, Thadious M. Davis

Publisher

Gale Research Co., c1987.

Published

1987

Language

EN

ISBN

9780810317178

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography