Rewriting Literary Blackness in Harlem - The Intertextuality of Hubert Harrison, George S. Schuyler, and

Using works by Hubert Harrison, George S. Schuyler, and Wallace Thurman as illustrations of blackness and literature in the early twentieth century, the author investigates how these works reflect Black Americans' changing views during the New Negro, the Harlem Renaissance, and Harlem's Literati movements.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Passing for One, Now the Other
Chapter One: Hubert Henry Harrison: New Negro Street Corner Radicalism
Chapter Two: George Schuyler and his Black No More Renaissance
Chapter Three: Wallace Thurman's Youth Blackens the Berries
Conclusion: Rethinking Blackness in Three Parts
Appendix: Further Readings
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

By Tammie Jenkins

Product details

• Authors: Tammie Jenkins, Jenkins Tammie
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2024
• EAN: 9781666911268
• ISBN: 978-1-66691-126-8
• No. of pages: 166
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, 20th Century, Africa, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Politics & government, Literature: history & criticism, United States of America, USA, Politics and government, History of the Americas, HISTORY / African American & Black, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black, Relating to African American / Black American people