03982nam 2200745 a 450 991095645010332120250916104639.01-282-07176-90-253-11092-0(CKB)1000000000243814(EBL)242723(OCoLC)614817772(SSID)ssj0000121189(PQKBManifestationID)11142650(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000121189(PQKBWorkID)10093576(PQKB)11604229(MiAaPQ)EBC242723(OCoLC)62348070(MdBmJHUP)muse16641(Au-PeEL)EBL242723(CaPaEBR)ebr10091983(CaONFJC)MIL207176(EXLCZ)99100000000024381420031120d2004 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrChildren's literature of the Harlem Renaissance /Katharine Capshaw Smith1st ed.Bloomington Indiana University Pressc20041 online resource (368 p.)Blacks in the diasporaDescription based upon print version of record.0-253-34443-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-325) and index.Cover; TOC; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Emblematic Black Child: Du Bois's Crisis Publications; 2. Creating the Past, Present, and Future: New Negro Children'sDrama; 3. The Legacy of the South: Revisiting the Plantation Tradition; 4. The Peacemakers: Carter G. Woodson's Circle; 5. The Aesthetics of Black Children's Literature: Arna Bontempsand Langston Hughes; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; IndexThe Harlem Renaissance, the period associated with the flowering of the arts in Harlem, inaugurated a tradition of African American children's literature, for the movement's central writers made youth both their subject and audience. W.E.B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, Langston Hughes, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and other Harlem Renaissance figures took an impassioned interest in the literary models offered to children, believing that the "New Negro" would ultimately arise from black youth. As a result, African American children's literature became a crucial medium through which a disparate community forged bonds of cultural, economic, and aesthetic solidarity. Kate Capshaw Smith explores the period's vigorous exchange about the nature and identity of black childhood and uncovers the networks of African American philosophers, community activists, schoolteachers, and literary artists who worked together to transmit black history and culture to the next generation.Blacks in the diaspora.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literatureNew York (State)New YorkHistory and criticismChildren's literature, AmericanHistory and criticismAfrican American childrenBooks and readingAfrican American children in literatureAfrican Americans in literatureHarlem RenaissanceHarlem (New York, N.Y.)Intellectual life20th centuryAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Children's literature, AmericanHistory and criticism.African American childrenBooks and reading.African American children in literature.African Americans in literature.Harlem Renaissance.810.9/9282/0899607307471Smith Katharine Capshaw1968-1135773MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910956450103321Children's literature of the Harlem Renaissance4432645UNINA