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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460089503321

Autore

Huggins Nathan Irvin <1927->

Titolo

Harlem Renaissance [[electronic resource] /] / Nathan Irvin Huggins ; with a new foreword by Arnold Rampersad

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-283-09827-X

9786613098276

0-19-983894-1

Edizione

[Updated ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (394 p.)

Disciplina

305.5/520899607307471

Soggetti

Harlem Renaissance

African Americans - Intellectual life - 20th century

African American arts - 20th century

African Americans - New York (State) - New York - Intellectual life - 20th century

African American arts - New York (State) - New York - 20th century

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.) Intellectual life 20th century

New York (N.Y.) Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Harlem: Capital of the Black World; 2. The New Negro; 3. Heart of Darkness; 4. Art: The Black Identity; 5. Art: The Ethnic Province; 6. White / Black Faces-Black Masks; Epilogue; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A finalist for the 1972 National Book Award, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as ""brilliant"" and ""provocative,"" Nathan Huggins' Harlem Renaissance was a milestone in the study of African-American life and culture. Now this classic history is being reissued, with a new foreword by acclaimed biographer Arnold Rampersad. As Rampersad notes, ""Harlem Renaissance remains an indispensable guide to the facts and features, the puzzles and mysteries, of one of the most



provocative episodes in African-American and American history."" Indeed, Huggins offers a brilliant account of the creative