Women of the Harlem Renaissance

Their achievements reflect the struggle of a generation of literary women to depict the lives of Black people, especially Black women, honestly and artfully.

List of contents

Author's Preface

A Note on the Journey

Chapter I

On Being Young¿a Woman¿and Colored

When Harlem Was in Vogue

Chapter II

Jessie Fauset: Treveling in Place

Chapter III

Nella Larsen: Passing For What?

Chapter IV

Zora Neale Hurston's Traveling Blues

Epilogue

Destinations Deferred

Appendix

Selected Bibliography of Writings by Women of the Harlem Renaissance

Notes

Index

About the author

CHERYL A. WALL is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University. She edited Changing Our Own Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory, and Writing by Black Women.

Summary

The lives and work of women in the Harlem Renaissance - Jessie Redmon Fauset, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, and others - situated in the traditions of African-American and American writing.

Product details

• Authors: Cheryl A. Wall, Wall Cheryl a
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.09.1995
• EAN: 9780253209801
• ISBN: 978-0-253-20980-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 234 mm x 157 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 408 g
• Illustrations: 20 b&w illus.
• Series: Women of Letters; Women of Letters
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Kunst, allgemein, Ethnic Studies