The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance

Table of Contents

Chronology of major works and events
Introduction George Hutchinson
Part I. Foundations of the Harlem Renaissance:
1. The New Negro as citizen Jeffrey C. Stewart
2. The Renaissance and the Vogue Emily Bernard
3. International contexts of the Negro Renaissance Michael A. Chaney
Part II. Major Authors and Texts:
4. Negro drama and the Harlem Renaissance David Krasner
5. Jean Toomer and the avant-garde Mark Whalan
6. 'To tell the truth about us': the fictions and non-fictions of Jessie Fauset and Walter White Cheryl A. Wall
7. African American folk roots and Harlem Renaissance poetry Mark A. Sanders
8. Lyric stars: Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes James Smethurst
9. 'Perhaps Buddha is a woman': women's poetry in the Harlem Renaissance Margo Natalie Crawford
10. Transgressive sexuality and the literature of the Harlem Renaissance A. B. Christa Schwarz
11. Sexual desire, modernity and modernism in the fiction of Nella Larsen and Rudolph Fisher Charles Scruggs
12. Banjo meets the dark princess: Claude McKay, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the transnational novel of the Harlem Renaissance William J. Maxwell
13. The Caribbean voices of Eric Walrond and Claude McKay Carl Pedersen
14. George Schuyler and Wallace Thurman: two satirists of the Harlem Renaissance J. Martin Favor
15. Zora Neale Hurston, folk performance, and the 'margarine negro' Carla Kaplan
Part III. The Post-Renaissance:
16. 'The aftermath': the reputation of the Harlem Renaissance twenty years later Lawrence Jackson
Guide to further reading.

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