Harlem Renaissance Novels: of the 1930s and 1920s. The Library of America Collection: (Two-volume boxed set)

Zafar, Rafia, editor; Hughes, Langston; Larsen, Nella; Toomer, Jean; Bontemps, Arna; Fauset, Jessie Redmon; Thurman, Wallace; McKay, Claude; Fisher, Rudolph; Schuyler, George S.

ISBN 10: 1598531069 / ISBN 13: 9781598531060

Published by Library of America, New York, 2011

About this Item

New York: Library of America, 2011. First edition. Two-volume set, 867, 848 pp. Includes chronology, biographical notes, notes on the texts, and notes. New in new dustjackets in new slipcase. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Harlem Renaissance Novels: of the 1930s and 1920s. The Library of America Collection: (Two-volume boxed set)
• Publisher: Library of America, New York
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1598531069
• ISBN 13: 9781598531060
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature and Fiction
  • New York
  • Rare Modern First Editions
  • African-American Interest

About this title

Synopsis

Together, the nine works in Harlem Renaissance Novels form a vibrant collective portrait of African American culture in a moment of tumultuous change and tremendous hope.

   • Cane, Jean Toomer
   • Home to Harlem, Claude McKay
   • Quicksand, Nella Larsen
   • Plum Bun, Jessie Redmon Fauset
   • The Blacker the Berry, Wallace Thurman
   • Not Without Laughter, Langston Hughes
   • Black No More, George Schuyler
   • The Conjure-Man Dies, Rudolph Fisher
   • Black Thunder, Arna Bontemps

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

About the Author

RAFIA ZAFAR, editor, is a professor of English with joint appointments in the African & African American Studies and American Culture Studies programs at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of We Wear the Mask: African Americans Write American Literature, 1760-1870 (1997) and the book-length study "Fictions of the Harlem Renaissance," which appears in the sixth volume of The Cambridge History of American Literature (2002). She has also edited New Essays on Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1996; with Deborah Garfield), and God Made Man, Man Made the Slave: The Autobiography of George Teamoh (1992; with F. N. Boney and R. L. Hume).