Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance 1920 1940 Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Wayne State University Press
• File Size : 33,5 Mb
• Release Date : 03 June 1996

The topics of the plays cover the realm of the human experience in styles as wide-ranging as poetry, farce, comedy, tragedy, social realism, and romance. Individual introductions to each play

• Publisher : Wayne State University Press
• File Size : 23,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 October 1996

A valuable contribution to African American literary and theatrical scholarship, this volume is a compilation of sixteen plays written during the Harlem Renaissance, brought together for the first time and

• Publisher : SIU Press
• File Size : 40,7 Mb
• Release Date : 03 June 2024

Among the most influential poets of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes is perhaps best remembered for the innovative use of jazz rhythms in his writing. While his poetry and essays

• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• File Size : 55,6 Mb
• Release Date : 03 June 2024

From the music of Louis Armstrong to the portraits by Beauford Delaney, the writings of Langston Hughes to the debut of the musical Show Boat, the Harlem Renaissance is one

• Publisher : University of Illinois Press
• File Size : 36,7 Mb
• Release Date : 15 May 2014

The first African American to head a branch of the New York Public Library (NYPL), Regina Andrews led an extraordinary life. Allied with W. E. B. Du Bois, Andrews fought

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 32,9 Mb
• Release Date : 31 May 2023

This new edition provides an expanded, comprehensive history of African American theatre, from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Including discussions of slave rebellions on the national stage,

• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• File Size : 24,7 Mb
• Release Date : 09 August 2022

Afro-Caribbean Women's Writing and Early American Literature is both pedagogical and critical. The text begins by re-evaluating the poetry of Wheatley for its political commentary, demonstrates how Hurston bridges several

• Publisher : Peter Lang
• File Size : 55,6 Mb
• Release Date : 03 June 2024

Teaching the Harlem Renaissance: Course Design and Classroom Strategies addresses the practical and theoretical needs of college and high school instructors offering a unit or a full course on the

• Publisher : University of Illinois Press
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• Release Date : 13 February 2023

Following on the heels of the Harlem Renaissance, the Chicago Renaissance was a resonant flourishing of African American arts, literature, theater, music, and intellectualism, from 1930 to 1955. Anne Meis Knupfer's The

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 33,6 Mb
• Release Date : 14 June 2007

This 2007 Companion is a comprehensive guide to the key authors and works of the African American literary movement.