Table of Contents
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