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Format:

Book

Author:

Wall, Cheryl A.

Title:

Women of the Harlem renaissance / Cheryl A. Wall.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

xx, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Summary:

Features chapters on Jessie Redmon Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston and Nella Larsen. Also discusses other artists including Josephine Baker, Gwendolyn Bennett, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Charlotte Mason, Bessie Smith, Anne Spencer, and Jean Toomer.

Series:

Women of letters

Women of letters (Bloomington, Ind.)

Subjects:

Fauset, Jessie Redmon -- Criticism and interpretation.

Hurston, Zora Neale -- Criticism and interpretation.

Larsen, Nella -- Criticism and interpretation.

American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.

Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.

American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

African American women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life.

African American women in literature.

African Americans in literature.

Harlem Renaissance.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-238) and index.

Also issued online.

Contents:

Foreword / by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar. -- Prologue: a note on the journey. -- On being young, a woman, and colored: when Harlem was in vogue. -- Jessie Redmon Fauset: traveling in place. -- Nella Larsen: passing for what? -- Zora Neale Hurston's traveling blues. -- Epilogue: destinations deferred. -- Selected bibliography of writings by women of the Harlem Renaissance.

Web Site:

Table of contents

LCCN:

95003132

ISBN:

0253329086

9780253329080

0253209803

9780253209801

0585001251

9780585001258

Other Number:

31901252

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

252498

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1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

810.9896 Wall