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Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s: Cane / Home to Harlem / Quicksand / Plum Bun / The Blacker the Berry

Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s: Cane / Home to Harlem / Quicksand / Plum Bun / The Blacker the Berry

Jessie Redmon Fauset
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The novels of the Harlem Renaissance form a vibrant collective portrait of African American culture in a moment of tumultuous change and tremendous hope. “In some places the autumn of 1924 may have been an unremarkable season,” wrote Arna Bontemps. “In Harlem it was like a foretaste of paradise.”

Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s leads off with Jean Toomer’s Cane , a unique fusion of fiction, poetry, and drama rooted in Toomer’s experiences as a teacher in Georgia. Toomer’s masterpiece was followed within a few years by a cluster of novels exploring black experience and the dilemmas of black identity in a variety of modes and from different angles.

Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem , whose freewheeling, impressionistic, bawdy kaleidoscope of Jazz Age nightlife made it a best seller, traces the picaresque adventures of Jake, a World War I veteran, within and beyond Harlem.

Nella Larsen’s Quicksand , is a poignant, nuanced psychological portrait of a woman caught between the two worlds of her mixed Scandinavian and African American heritage.

Jessie Redmon Fauset’s Plum Bun , is the richly detailed account of a young art student’s struggles to advance her career in a society full of obstacles both overt and insidiously concealed.

Wallace Thurman’s The Blacker the Berry , is an anguished, provocative look at prejudice and exclusion as it tells of a new arrival in Harlem searching for love.

Each in its distinct way testifies to the enduring power of the Harlem ferment.

Often controversial in their own day for opening up new realms of subject matter and language , these novels continue to surprise by their passion, their unblinking observation, their lively play of ideas, and their irreverent humor.
Language
English
Pages
800
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Library of America
Release
September 01, 2011
ISBN
1598530992
ISBN 13
9781598530995

Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s: Cane / Home to Harlem / Quicksand / Plum Bun / The Blacker the Berry

Jessie Redmon Fauset
4.2/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
The novels of the Harlem Renaissance form a vibrant collective portrait of African American culture in a moment of tumultuous change and tremendous hope. “In some places the autumn of 1924 may have been an unremarkable season,” wrote Arna Bontemps. “In Harlem it was like a foretaste of paradise.”

Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s leads off with Jean Toomer’s Cane , a unique fusion of fiction, poetry, and drama rooted in Toomer’s experiences as a teacher in Georgia. Toomer’s masterpiece was followed within a few years by a cluster of novels exploring black experience and the dilemmas of black identity in a variety of modes and from different angles.

Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem , whose freewheeling, impressionistic, bawdy kaleidoscope of Jazz Age nightlife made it a best seller, traces the picaresque adventures of Jake, a World War I veteran, within and beyond Harlem.

Nella Larsen’s Quicksand , is a poignant, nuanced psychological portrait of a woman caught between the two worlds of her mixed Scandinavian and African American heritage.

Jessie Redmon Fauset’s Plum Bun , is the richly detailed account of a young art student’s struggles to advance her career in a society full of obstacles both overt and insidiously concealed.

Wallace Thurman’s The Blacker the Berry , is an anguished, provocative look at prejudice and exclusion as it tells of a new arrival in Harlem searching for love.

Each in its distinct way testifies to the enduring power of the Harlem ferment.

Often controversial in their own day for opening up new realms of subject matter and language , these novels continue to surprise by their passion, their unblinking observation, their lively play of ideas, and their irreverent humor.
Language
English
Pages
800
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Library of America
Release
September 01, 2011
ISBN
1598530992
ISBN 13
9781598530995

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