The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (Portable Library)

ISBN 10: 0140170367 / ISBN 13: 9780140170368

Published by Penguin Classics, 1995

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (Portable Library)
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140170367
• ISBN 13: 9780140170368
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Gathering a representative sampling of the New Negro Movement's most important figures, and providing substantial introductory essays, headnotes, and brief biographical notes, Lewis' volume—organized chronologically—includes the poetry and prose of Sterling Brown, Countee Cullen, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, and others.

Review

This collection magnificently represents the great voices of this era. The volume includes the work of some forty-five Renaissance figures: short fiction and self-contained novel excerpts by Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Wallace Thurman, and Jean Toomer; poems by Gwendolyn Bennett, Countee Cullen, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay; essays, manifestos, speeches, and nostalgic reminiscences by Romare Bearden, W. E. B. Dubois, Marcus Garvey, James Weldon Johnson, Alain Locke, and Richard Wright.