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Harlem Renaissance: Four Novels of the 1930s (Loa #218): Not Without Laughter / Black No More / The Conjure-Man Dies / Black Thunder
Contributor(s): Zafar, Rafia (Editor)
ISBN: 1598531018     ISBN-13: 9781598531015
Publisher: Library of America
OUR PRICE:   $31.50  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: September 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction
Dewey: 813.5
LCCN: 2010942024
Series: Library of America
Physical Information: 1.47" H x 5.14" W x 8.25" (1.61 lbs) 800 pages
 
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HARLEM RENAISSANCE: Four Novels of the 1930s traces the flowering of the Renaissance in diverse genres and forms. It opens with Langston Hughes's Not Without Laughter (1931), an elegantly realized coming-of-age tale that follows a young man from his rural origins to the big city. Suffused with childhood memories, it is the poet's only novel. George S. Schuyler's Black No More (1931), a satire founded on the science fiction premise of a wonder drug permitting blacks to change their race, skewers public figures white and black alike in a raucous, carnivalesque send-up of American racial attitudes. Considered the first detective story by an African American writer, Rudolph Fisher's The Conjure-Man Dies (1932) is a mystery that comically mixes and reverses stereotypes, placing a Harvard-educated African conjureman at the center of a phantasmagoric charade of deaths and disappearances. Black Thunder (1936), Arna Bontemps's stirring fictional recreation of Gabriel Prosser's 1800 slave revolt, which, though unsuccessful, shook Jefferson's Virginia to its core, marks a turn from aestheticism toward political militancy in its exploration of African American history.

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