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Harlem Renaissance

A milestone in the study of African-American life and culture, this classic history has been reissued with a new foreword by biographer Arnold Rampersad. As Rampersad notes, "Harlem Renaissance remains an indispensable guide to the facts and features, the puzzles and mysteries, of one of the most pr...

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Main Author: Huggins, Nathan Irvin, 1927-1989
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Edition:Updated ed.
Subjects:
Harlem Renaissance.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
African American arts > 20th century.
African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Intellectual life > 20th century.
African American arts > New York (State) > New York > 20th century.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
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Summary:A milestone in the study of African-American life and culture, this classic history has been reissued with a new foreword by biographer Arnold Rampersad. As Rampersad notes, "Harlem Renaissance remains an indispensable guide to the facts and features, the puzzles and mysteries, of one of the most provocative episodes in African-American and American history." Indeed, Huggins offers a brilliant account of the creative explosion in Harlem during these pivotal years. Blending the fields of history, literature, music, psychology, and folklore, he illuminates the thought and writing of such key figures as Alain Locke, James Weldon Johnson, and W.E.B. DuBois, and provides sharp-eyed analyses of the poetry of Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, and Langston Hughes. But the main objective for Huggins, throughout the book, is always to achieve a better understanding of America as a whole. He strives throughout to link the work of poets and novelists not only to artists working in other genres and media but also to economic, historical, and cultural forces in the culture at large. --From publisher description.
Physical Description:xxxiii, 343 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780195063363
0195063368
Author Notes:Nathan Irvin Huggins was W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of History and Afro-American Studies and Director of the Du Bois Institute at Harvard University until his death in 1989. His books include Slave and Citizen: The Life of Frederick Douglass, Black Odyssey: The African-American Ordeal in Slavery, and Voices From the Harlem Renaissance. Arnold Rampersad is Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University and is the author of The Life of Langston Hughes, among other titles.

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