Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers, 1900-45 - Hardcover

Roses, Lorraine Elena; Randolph, Ruth E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816189269 ISBN 13: 9780816189267

Publisher: G K Hall & Co,US, 1989

Synopsis

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Review

In the past, reviewers and critics have confined their examinations of the Harlem Renaissance to the literary contributions of male poets and authors such as Langston Hughes and Jean Toomer. However, Lorraine Roses and Ruth Randolph's "Harlem Renaissance and Beyond" presents a detailed and accessible biographical study of black women writers, active not only during the movement but in the years directly preceding and following its demise. By broadening and revising our understanding of this unique period in literary history, "Harlem Renaissance and Beyond" exposes the complexity of the political and economical factors which faced women wanting to publish work during this time...Well illustrated with rare archival photographs, the book offers an illuminating literary excavation of work by black women writers who have either been forgotten or marginalised; hence it achieves a timely revision of male-centred analyses of the movement.

Synopsis

Drawing on extensive archival research interviews with living writers and deceased writers' families, this biographical bibliography is a reference guide to 100 black women novelists, playwrights, poets, essayists, critics, historians, journalists and editors writing in Harlem and across America from 1900 to 1945. It provides biographical profiles - most accompanied by photographs - and comprehensive bibliographies of primary and secondary sources, to reveal little-known information on the writers: their significant contributions to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and '30s, race and gender concerns, common themes, and relationships to artistic contemporaries outside the literary community. Also covered in the profiles and bibliographic sources is the influence of early writers - from journalist Alice Dunbar to novelist Lillian Wood and playwright Eloise Bibb Thompson - on such pre-eminent literary figures as Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Zora Neale Hurston.

Edition details

• Publisher: G K Hall & Co,US
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816189269
• ISBN 13: 9780816189267
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 538