| The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader Contributor(s): Lewis, David Levering (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0140170367 ISBN-13: 9780140170368 Publisher: Penguin Group OUR PRICE: $21.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1995 Annotation: From its beginnings in 1919, with soldiers returning from the Great War, to its sputtering end in 1934, with the Great Depression, the New Negro Movement in arts and letters proclaimed the experience of African American men and women. This magnificent volume features a wealth of fiction and nonfiction works by 45 writers from that exuberant era. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: 810.8 |
| LCCN: 93030233 |
| Series: Portable Library |
| Physical Information: 1.49" H x 5.04" W x 7.81" (1.18 lbs) 816 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - New York |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Gathering a representative sampling of the New Negro Movement's most important figures, and providing substantial introductory essays, headnotes, and brief biographical notes, Lewis' volume--organized chronologically--includes the poetry and prose of Sterling Brown, Countee Cullen, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, and others. |