The Politics and Aesthetics of New Negro Literature

by Cary D. Wintz (Editor)

Overview

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815322139
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/01/1996
Series:	The Harlem Renaissance 1920-1940 , #2
Pages:	396
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Cary D. Wintz is Professor of History at Texas Southern University in Houston. He received his undergraduate education at Rice University and his Ph.D. from Kansas State University. He is the author of many books, articles, and book reviews, mostly in the field of African American history or immigrant/ethnic history, and he has lectured internationally on these topics as a USIA lecturer in both the Philippines and India.

Table of Contents

Ebony and Topaz: A Collectanea, 1925

Ebony and Topaz: A Collectanea (New York: Opportunity, 1925), Charles S. Johnson

Defining the Harlem Renaissance and Black Literature"The Negro-Art Hokum." Nation 122 (1926), George S. Schuyler * "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain." Nation 122 (1926), Langston Hughes * "American Negro Art." Opportunity 4 (1926), Charles S. Johnson * "Gambling the Lyre." Opportunity 4 (1926) * "Some Perils of the Renaissance." Opportunity 5 (1927) * "Characteristics of Negro Expression." In Nancy Cunard, ed., Negro: Anthology Made by Nancy Cunard (London, 1934), Zora Neale Hurston * "Harlem Reviewed." In Nancy Cunard, ed., Negro: Anthology Made by Nancy Cunard" (London, 1934), Nancy Cunard

Art, Theater, and Music

"A Negro Art Exhibit." Southern Workman 51 (1922) * "To Certain of Our Phillistines." Opportunity 3 (1925), Alain Locke * "Negro Art." Opportunity 4 (1926) * "Negro Art, Past and Present." Opportunity 4 (1926), Albert C. Barnes * "The Negro Spirituals and American Art." Opportunity 4 (1926), Laurence Buermeyer * "More About African Art." Opportunity 5 (1927) * "The Art of the Congo." Opportunity 5 (1927), Melville J. Herskovits * "African Plastic in Contemporary Art." Opportunity 5 (1927), Harry Alan Potamkin * "The Negro in Dramatic Art." Crisis 27 (1924), Raymond O'Neil * "The Negro in the Field of Drama." Opportunity 6 (1928), Rowena Woodham Jelliffe * "Has the Negro a Place in Theatre?" Opportunity 6 (1928), Jules Bledsoe * "A Criticism of the Negro Drama as it Relates to the Negro Dramatist and Artist." Opportunity 6 (1928), Eulalie Spence * "Porgy: An Impression." Opportunity 6 (1928), Harry S. Keelan * "The Gift of Laughter." In Addison Gayle, Jr., ed., Black Expression: Essays by and about Black Americans in the Creative Arts (New York: Weybright and Talley, 1969), Jessie Fauset * "The Negro's Cycle of Song-A Review." Opportunity 3 (1925), Arthur Huff Fauset * "Self-Portraiture and Social Criticism in Negro Folk-Song." Opportunity 5 (1927), B.A. Botkin * "The Profanation of Negro Spirituals." 6 (1928), George A. Webb * "Spirituals and Neo-Spirituals." In Nancy Cunard, ed., (London, 1934), Zora Neale Hurston * "A Folk Culture in the Making." Southern Workman 57 (1928), E. Franklin Frazier

Setting the Political Agenda for the Harlem Renaissance

"The Dilemma of the Negro Author." The American Mercury 15 (1928), James Weldon Johnson * "The Larger Success." Southern Workman 52 (1923), James Weldon Johnson * "On Writing About Negroes." Opportunity 3 (1925) * "A Note on the Sociology of Negro Literature." Opportunity 3 (1925), Fred De Armond * "The Advance of the Negro." Opportunity 4 (1926), V.F. Calverton * "The Negro Enters Literature." The Carolina Magazine 57 (1927), Charles S. Johnson * "Race Prejudice and the Negro Artist." Harper's Monthly (1928), James Weldon Johnson * "The Negro Looks at an Outworn Tradition." Southern Workman 57 (1928), Alice Dunbar Nelson * "Negro Authors and White Publishers." Crisis 36 (1929), James Weldon Johnson * "Negro Authors Must Eat." Nation 128 (1929), George W. Jacobs * "Our Literary Audience." Opportunity 8 (1930), Sterling A. Brown * "The Burden of Credulity." Opportunity 9 (1931), H.L. Mencken * "H.L. Mencken Finds Flowers in a 'Dunghill.'" Opportunity 9 (1931), A. Clayton Powell * "Art Is Not Enough." Southern Workman 61 (1932), Benjamin Brawley * "Claude McKay to Nancy Cunard, September 18, 1932 from Tangier, Morocco." * "Claude McKay to Nancy Cunard, September 29, 1932 from Tangier, Morocco." * "Writers, Words and the World." Typed manuscript of a speech given at the Paris Meeting of the International Writers Association for the Defense of Culture, July 25, 1938, Langston Hughes * "Democracy, Negroes, and Writers." Typed Manuscript of an address to the League of American Writers dated May 13, 1941, Langston Hughes * "My Adventures as a Social Poet." Phylon 8 (1947), Langston Hughes * "A Note on Contempo and Langston Hughes." In Nancy Cunard, ed., Negro: Anthology Made by Nancy Cunard (London, 1934)

The Politics of Publishing-Letters and Memos

Alfred A. Knopf to Langston Hughes, July 29, 1930 * Langston Hughes to Carl Van Vechten, September 4, 1930 * Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. to Langston Hughes, March 2, 1931, Bernard Smith * Carl Van Vechten to Blanche Knopf, April 3, 1933 * Blanche Knopf to Langston Hughes, August 21, 1933 * Langston Hughes to Blanche Knopf, February 27, 1934 * Carl Van Vechten to Blanche Knopf, March 12, 1934 * Blanche Knopf to Langston Hughes, March 12, 1934 * Langston Hughes to Blanche Knopf, nd (1934) * Memo, HS (Harold Strauss) to Mr. Knopf, March 1, 1940 * Memo, HS (Harold Strauss) to Mrs. Knopf, April 8, 1940 * Langston Hughes to Mrs. Blanche Knopf, February 8, 1940 (from Monterey, California) * Reader's Report, November 27, 1942. Langston Hughes, The Big Sea, H. Strauss

The Politics of the New Negro

"The Negro and Radical Thought." Crisis 22 (1921), W.E.B. Du Bois * "Soviet Russia and the Negro." Crisis 27 (1923, 1924), Claude McKay * "Garvey and Garveyism-An Estimate." Opportunity 3 (1925), A.F. Elmes * "The Garvey Movement." Opportunity 4 (1926), E. Franklin Frazier * "Garvey and the Garvey Movement." Opportunity 6 (1928) * "The Social Philosophy of Booker T. Washington." Opportunity 6 (1928), Charles S. Johnson