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Harlem Renaissance

Nathan Huggins

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Harlem Renaissance

Harlem Renaissance was a finalist for the 1972 National Book Award. Nathan Huggins offers a brilliant account of the creative explosion in Harlem during these pivotal years. Blending the fields of history, literature, music, psychology, and folklore, he illuminates the thought and writing of such key figures as Alain Locke, James Weldon Johnson, and W.E.B. DuBois and provides sharp-eyed analyses of the poetry of Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, and Langston Hughes. But the main objective for Huggins, throughout the book, is always to achieve a better understanding of America as a whole. As Huggins himself noted, he didn't want Harlem in the 1920s to be the focus of the book so much as a lens through which readers might see how this one moment in time sheds light on the American character and culture, not just in Harlem but across the nation. He strives throughout to link the work of poets and novelists not only to artists working in other genres and media but also to economic, historical, and cultural forces in the culture at large.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2007
ISBN-13
9780199839025
Genre
History
Topics
Harlem RenaissanceAfrican-American culture and literatureAmerican cultural history

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