Table of Contents

Author's Preface
A Note on the Journey
Chapter I
On Being Young—a Woman—and Colored
When Harlem Was in Vogue
Chapter II
Jessie Fauset: Treveling in Place
Chapter III
Nella Larsen: Passing For What?
Chapter IV
Zora Neale Hurston's Traveling Blues
Epilogue
Destinations Deferred
Appendix
Selected Bibliography of Writings by Women of the Harlem Renaissance
Notes
Index

Promotional Information

The lives and work of women in the Harlem Renaissance—Jessie Redmon Fauset, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, and others—situated in the traditions of African-American and American writing.

About the Author

CHERYL A. WALL is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University. She edited Changing Our Own Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory, and Writing by Black Women.