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The Harlem Renaissance The One and the Many
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Mark Helbling
Book Code: GM1047
ISBN: 0-313-31047-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31047-8
224 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 11/30/1999
List Price: $110.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies
Series Number: 195
Description: During the Harlem Renaissance, African-American culture flourished. The period gave birth to numerous significant and enduring creative works that were at once American and emblematic of the black experience in particular. It was a time when African-American culture became more distinct from American culture in general, though it also continued to be a part of America's larger cultural heritage. While the writers, artists, and intellectuals who contributed to the Harlem Renaissance recognized that they had much in common, they also sought to distinguish themselves from one another. This book approaches the achievement of the Harlem Renaissance from the perspective of the conflict between individual and group identity. According to W.E.B. Du Bois, black intellectuals of the period sought to be both Negroes and Americans. At the same time, the relationship of the individual to the group was no less problematic and served to inspire, as well as complicate, the imaginations of the principal figures discussed in this book--W.E.B. Du Bois, Alain Locke, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, and Zora Neale Hurston. As a consequence, this study focuses on the tension each of these individuals felt as he or she sought to construct a narrative that mirrored this complex experience as well as the problematics of one's own self-identity.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • One Ever Feels His Two-Ness: W.E.B. Du Bois, Johann Gottfried Von Herder, and Franz Boas
  • Feeling Universality and Thinking Particularistically: Alain Locke, Franz Boas, and Melville Herskovits
  • Camels of Obviousness and Gnats of Particularities: Alain Locke, Melville Herskovits, Roger Fry and Albert C. Barnes
  • Universality of Life Under the Different Colors and Patterns: Claude McKay
  • Worlds of Shadow-Planes and Solids Silently Moving: Jean Toomer, Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe and Waldo Frank
  • My Souls Was with the Gods and My Body in the Village: Zora Neale Hurston, Franz Boas, Melville Herskovits and Ruth Benedict
  • Afterword
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 99-16100
LCC Class: PS153
Dewey Class: 810
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