The Harlem Renaissance: The One and the Many - Couverture rigide

Helbling, Mark

 
9780313310478: The Harlem Renaissance: The One and the Many
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0313310475 ISBN 13 : 9780313310478
Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 1999

Synopsis

During the Harlem Renaissance, African-American culture flourished. The period gave birth to numerous significant and enduring creative works that were at once American and emblematic of the black experience in particular. It was a time when African-American culture became more distinct from American culture in general, though it also continued to be a part of America's larger cultural heritage. While the writers, artists, and intellectuals who contributed to the Harlem Renaissance recognized that they had much in common, they also sought to distinguish themselves from one another. This book approaches the achievement of the Harlem Renaissance from the perspective of the conflict between individual and group identity.

According to W.E.B. Du Bois, black intellectuals of the period sought to be both Negroes and Americans. At the same time, the relationship of the individual to the group was no less problematic and served to inspire, as well as complicate, the imaginations of the principal figures discussed in this book—W.E.B. Du Bois, Alain Locke, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, and Zora Neale Hurston. As a consequence, this study focuses on the tension each of these individuals felt as he or she sought to construct a narrative that mirrored this complex experience as well as the problematics of one's own self-identity.

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À propos de l?auteur

MARK HELBLING is Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. He has also taught in Africa and Germany. His essays have appeared in such journals as Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies, Phylon, Negro American Literature Forum, Polish Review, Research Studies, and Ethnic Forum.

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Éditeur
Praeger Publishers Inc
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0313310475
ISBN 13 
9780313310478
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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