Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Geneviève Fabre and Michel Feith
1. Racial Doubt and Racial Shame in the Harlem Renaissance / Arnold Rampersad
Part I. Criteria of Renaissance Art
2. The Syncopated African : Construction of Origins During the Harlem Renaissance / Michel Feith
3. Oh Africa!: The Influence of African Art During the Harlem Renaissance / Amy Kirschke
4. The Heart of a Woman : Florence Price's Symphony in E Minor in the Context of the Harlem Renaissance / Rae Linda Brown
5. Ethel Waters: The Voice of an Era / Randall Cherry
6. Race Movies and the Harlem Renaissance / Clyde Taylor
Part II. Enter The New Negro: Some Writers of the Renaissance:
7. The Tragedy and the Joke: James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man / Alessandro Portelli
8. "The Spell of Africa Is Upon Me": W.E.B. Du Bois's Notion of Art as Propaganda / Alessandra Lorini
9. Subject to Disappearance: Interracial Identity in Nella Larsen's Quicksand / George Hutchinson
10. No Free Gift: From Jean Toomer's "Fern" to Fisher's "Miss Cynthie" / William Boelhower
11. Harlem as a Memory Place: Reconstructing the Harlem Renaissance in Space / Dorothea Löbbermann
12. "Thoughts Untouched by Words": Language in Their Eyes Were Watching God / Claudine Raynaud
13. Langston Hughes's Blues / Monica Michlin
Part III. The Negro Mind Reaches Out: The Renaissance in International Perspective:
14. The Tropics in New York: Claude McKay and the New Negro Movement / Carl Pedersen
15. The West Indian Presence in Alain Locke's New Negro / Françoise Charras
16. Three Ways to Translate the Harlem Renaissance / Brent Edwards
17. Modernism, the New Negro and Négritude / Michel Fabre
Chronology
Selected Bibliography
Index

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About the Author

Geneviève Fabre is professor at the University Paris 7 where she is director of the Center of African American Research. Author of books on James Agee, on African American Theatre (Paris, CNRS and Harvard U P), she has contributed to several collective volumes and encyclopedias. Co-author of books on F.S. Fitzgerald, American minorities, she has edited or co-edited several volumes: on Hispanic literatures, on Barrio culture in the USA, on ethnicity, two volumes on "Feasts and Celebrations among Ethnic Communities," two on Toni Morrison, and a book on History and Memory in Afr Am Culture. She is now co-editing with Michel Feith a collection of essays on The Harlem Renaissance. A Fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard, The National Humanities Center and the American Antiquarian Society, she is currently working on African American celebrative culture (1730-1880).
Michel Feith is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nantes, France. He has spent several years abroad; his experience of living in Australia, Japan and the United States has sensitivized him to issues of multiculturalism. He wrote a doctoral thesis under the direction of Professor Geneviève Fabre, on " Myth and History in Chinese American and Chicano Literature " (1995), and his publications include articles on Maxine Hong Kingston, John Edgar Wideman, and the Harlem Renaissance.