Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance - Hardcover

Wintz, Cary D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0892632674 ISBN 13: 9780892632671

Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr, 1992

Synopsis

Looks at the Black literary and artistic movement that began in 1920s Harlem and discusses the major Black writers of the period

About this title

About the Author:

CARY D. WINTZ is professor of history at Texas Southern University in Houston. He co-edited Black Dixie: Afro-Texan History and Culture in Houston, published by Texas A&M University Press.

Review:

Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance is an addition to the mountains of work already produced on that fabled age. Wintz has tried to frame the period within a political/cultural arena, but his efforts lean toward the literary, as well they might. The literary efforts of the time were and continue to be a very powerful magnet, the music and musicians coming in for second billing. The artists, painters, and sculptors are all but ignored. Wintz is not the first to ornit them, yet Harlem was ringed with a music that even found its way downtown to Broadway. This work may be considered a companion to the many previous works on the Renaissance, filling in some of the spaces other studies have left blank. For example, Wintz reveals, through Table 7, that the number of black writers published between 18951919 were only a few less than those published from 19201935, though the peak of the Renaissance was from 19251930. Table 8, the year-by-year publication of major works, is an invaluable guide to whom, what~ and when. In this section, "Black Writers and White Promoters," a survey of publishing practices and black writers, we see that not much has changed over the years. This not so much food for thought as it is the old indictment minority writers have always lodged against publishing. There are many fine details here that have been overlooked elsewhere. -- From Independent Publisher

About this edition

• Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0892632674
• ISBN 13: 9780892632671
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 277