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Author : Countee Cullen
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corporation
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 27,64 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Poetry
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This selection from the work of 38 poets was made by Countee Cullen in 1927. His stated purpose at the time was to bring together a miscellany of deeper appreciated but scattered verse. Poets include Countee Cullen, Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps, Sterling A. Brown, Jessie Faucet, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Jean Toomer, Claude McKay, W.E.B. Du Bois, and other poets of the twenties. **Lightning Print On Demand Title

Author : Countee Cullen
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Page : 272 pages
File Size : 23,52 MB
Release : 1927
Category : African Americans
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"For this anthology, Cullen selected the work of thirty-eight poets to, as he put it, "bring together a miscellany of deeply appreciated but scattered verse." The collection includes Paul Laurence Dunbar, often credited as the first Black poet to make a deep and lasting impression on the literary world; James Weldon Johnson, the author of what is referred to now as the Black National Anthem; W. E. B. Du Bois; Jessie Faucet; Sterling A. Brown; Arna Bontemps; Langston Hughes and Cullen's own work. The poets were all known within the literary world and widely published. Each poem is accompanied by autobiographical notes, with the exception of three. The decorations in this book are by African American painter and graphic artist, Aaron Douglas"--J. Willard Marriott Library blog, viewed June 3, 2022.

Author : Countee Cullen
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,87 MB
Release : 2022-12-17
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ISBN : 9781609622787

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Published 1927 by Harper & Brothers, New York & London. Poets included are: Paul Laurence Dunbar - Joseph S. Cotter, Sr - James Weldon Johnson - William Edward Burghardt Du Bois - William Stanley Braithwaite - James Edward Mccall - Angelina Weld Grimke - Anne Spencer - Mary Effie Lee Newsome - John Frederick Matheus - Fenton Johnson - Jessie Fauset - Alice Dunbar Nelson - Georgia Douglas Johnson - Claude McKay - Jean Toomer - Joseph S. Cotter, Jr - Blanche Taylor Dickinson - Frank Horne - Lewis Alexander - Sterling A. Brown - Clarissa Scott Delany - Langston Hughes - Gwendolyn B. Bennett - Anna Bontemps - Albert Rice - Countee Cullen - Donald Jeffrey Hayes - Gladys May Casely Hayford - Lucy Ariel Williams - George Leonard Allen - Richard Bruce - Waring Cuney - Edward S. Silvera - Helene Johnson - Wesley Curtwright - Lula Lowe Weeden

Author : Jean Wagner
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 26,99 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252003417

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Traces the evolution of Afro-American poetry, highlighting individual poets up to the time of the Harlem Renaissance.

Author : Emmanuel S. Nelson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 21,55 MB
Release : 2000-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0313007403

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There has been a dramatic resurgence of interest in early African American writing. Since the accidental rediscovery and republication of Harriet Wilson's Our Nig in 1983, the works of dozens of 19th and early 20th century black writers have been recovered and reprinted. There is now a significant revival of interest in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s; and in the last decade alone, several major assessments of 18th and 19th century African American literature have been published. Early African American literature builds on a strong oral tradition of songs, folktales, and sermons. Slave narratives began to appear during the late 18th and early 19th century, and later writers began to engage a variety of themes in diverse genres. A central objective of this reference book is to provide a wide-ranging introduction to the first 200 years of African American literature. Included are alphabetically arranged entries for 78 black writers active between 1745 and 1945. Among these writers are essayists, novelists, short story writers, poets, playwrights, and autobiographers. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, an overview of the author's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume concludes with a selected, general bibliography.

Author : Maureen Honey
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,9 MB
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813570808

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The Harlem Renaissance was a watershed moment for racial uplift, poetic innovation, sexual liberation, and female empowerment. Aphrodite’s Daughters introduces us to three amazing women who were at the forefront of all these developments, poetic iconoclasts who pioneered new and candidly erotic forms of female self-expression. Maureen Honey paints a vivid portrait of three African American women—Angelina Weld Grimké, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, and Mae V. Cowdery—who came from very different backgrounds but converged in late 1920s Harlem to leave a major mark on the literary landscape. She examines the varied ways these poets articulated female sexual desire, ranging from Grimké’s invocation of a Sapphic goddess figure to Cowdery’s frank depiction of bisexual erotics to Bennett’s risky exploration of the borders between sexual pleasure and pain. Yet Honey also considers how they were united in their commitment to the female body as a primary source of meaning, strength, and transcendence. The product of extensive archival research, Aphrodite’s Daughters draws from Grimké, Bennett, and Cowdery’s published and unpublished poetry, along with rare periodicals and biographical materials, to immerse us in the lives of these remarkable women and the world in which they lived. It thus not only shows us how their artistic contributions and cultural interventions were vital to their own era, but also demonstrates how the poetic heart of their work keeps on beating.

Author : Maureen Honey
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 18,2 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0813538866

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This revised and expanded version of the collection contains twice the number of poems found in the original, many of them never before reprinted, and adds eighteen new female voices from the Harlem Renaissance, once again striking new ground in African American literary history. Also new to this edition are nine period illustrations and updated biographical introductions for each poet. Shadowed Dreams features new poems by Gwendolyn B. Bennett, Anita Scott Coleman, Mae V. Cowdery, Blanche Taylor Dickinson, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Angelina Weld Grimké, Gladys May Casely Hayford (a k a Aquah Laluah), Virginia Houston, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Helene Johnson, Effie Lee Newsome, Esther Popel, and Anne Spencer, as well as writings from rediscovered poets Carrie Williams Clifford, Edythe Mae Gordon, Alvira Hazzard, Gertrude Parthenia McBrown, Beatrice M. Murphy, Lucia Mae Pitts, Grace Vera Postles, Ida Rowland, and Lucy Mae Turner, among others.