Writing the Harlem Renaissance (eBook)

Emily Allen Williams is dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of the Virgin Islands.

Preface, Emily Allen WilliamsIntroduction, Reginald MartinPart I: Writing the Harlem Renaissance: Spatial Representations and Memorandums of [Mis] UnderstandingChapter 1: The Greatest Joy in Life: Geraldyn Dismond’s Transformative Coverage of the Hamilton Lodge Ball, Jacqueline C. JonesChapter 2: Towards a Trans-Atlantic Approach: Tracing the Modernist Psychodrama and Wasteland Critique—the Poetry of the Political Imagination, Christopher VarlackChapter 3: The Impact of the Harlem Renaissance on the Development of the African American Voice within Literature, Mary Lynn ChambersPart II: Blackness, Beauty, and Interracial Posturing: Sociological and Literary RepresentationsChapter 4: DuBois and Larsen: The Convergence of Contrasting Literary Genres, Imani Michelle ScottChapter 5: Jean Toomer’s Cane in the Harlem Renaissance: Modernity, Individuality, and Language, Gerardo Del GuercioChapter 6: In Search of Our Mother’s Dignity: The Plight of African American Women in Selected Harlem Renaissance Literature, Devona MalloryChapter 7: Revisiting the “Mulatto” Stereotype in Passing and The Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man, Antonia Iliadou