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Double-Take: A Revisionist Harlem Renaissance Anthology
Rutgers University Press, 2001 Paper: 978-0-8135-2930-1 | Cloth: 978-0-8135-2929-5 | eISBN: 978-0-8135-5600-0 Library of Congress Classification PS509.N4D68 2001 Dewey Decimal Classification 810.808960730904
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
In this important new anthology, Venetria K. Patton and Maureen Honey bring together a comprehensive selection of texts from the Harlem Renaissance-a key period in the literary and cultural history of the United States. The collection revolutionizes our way of viewing this era, since it redresses the ongoing emphasis on the male writers of this time. Double-Take offers a unique, balanced collection of writers-men and women, gay and straight, familiar and obscure. Arranged by author, rather than by genre, this anthology includes works from major Harlem Renaissance figures as well as often-overlooked essayists, poets, dramatists, and artists.
The editors have included works from a wide variety of genres-poetry, short stories, drama, and essays-allowing readers to understand the true interdisciplinary quality of this cultural movement. Biographical sketches of the authors are provided and most of the pieces are included in their entirety. Double-Take also includes artwork and illustrations, many of which are from original journals and have never before been reprinted. Significantly, Double-Take is the first Harlem Renaissance title to include song lyrics to illustrate the interrelation of various art forms. See other books on: African American arts | Comparative Literature | Harlem (New York, N.Y.) | Harlem Renaissance | Literary collections See other titles from Rutgers University Press |
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Double-Take: A Revisionist Harlem Renaissance Anthology
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
edited by Venetria K. Patton and Maureen Honey
Rutgers University Press, 2001
Paper: 978-0-8135-2930-1
Cloth: 978-0-8135-2929-5
eISBN: 978-0-8135-5600-0
Paper: 978-0-8135-2930-1
Cloth: 978-0-8135-2929-5
eISBN: 978-0-8135-5600-0
In this important new anthology, Venetria K. Patton and Maureen Honey bring together a comprehensive selection of texts from the Harlem Renaissance-a key period in the literary and cultural history of the United States. The collection revolutionizes our way of viewing this era, since it redresses the ongoing emphasis on the male writers of this time. Double-Take offers a unique, balanced collection of writers-men and women, gay and straight, familiar and obscure. Arranged by author, rather than by genre, this anthology includes works from major Harlem Renaissance figures as well as often-overlooked essayists, poets, dramatists, and artists.
The editors have included works from a wide variety of genres-poetry, short stories, drama, and essays-allowing readers to understand the true interdisciplinary quality of this cultural movement. Biographical sketches of the authors are provided and most of the pieces are included in their entirety. Double-Take also includes artwork and illustrations, many of which are from original journals and have never before been reprinted. Significantly, Double-Take is the first Harlem Renaissance title to include song lyrics to illustrate the interrelation of various art forms.
The editors have included works from a wide variety of genres-poetry, short stories, drama, and essays-allowing readers to understand the true interdisciplinary quality of this cultural movement. Biographical sketches of the authors are provided and most of the pieces are included in their entirety. Double-Take also includes artwork and illustrations, many of which are from original journals and have never before been reprinted. Significantly, Double-Take is the first Harlem Renaissance title to include song lyrics to illustrate the interrelation of various art forms.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Venetria Patton is an associate professor of English and African American and African studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She is the author of Women in Chains: The Legacy of Slavery in Black Women's Fiction.
Maureen Honey is professor of English and women's studies, also at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She is the editor of Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance and co-editor of "Madame Butterfly" and "A Japanese Nightingale": Two Orientalist Texts by John Luther Long and Winnifred Eaton (both by Rutgers University Press).
Maureen Honey is professor of English and women's studies, also at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She is the editor of Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance and co-editor of "Madame Butterfly" and "A Japanese Nightingale": Two Orientalist Texts by John Luther Long and Winnifred Eaton (both by Rutgers University Press).
REVIEWS
With this new anthology of Harlem Renaissance literature, Patton (Women in Chains: The Legacy of Slavery in Black Women's Fiction) and Honey (editor, Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance), both at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, attempt to "restore and underline the importance of women's writing" and sexual orientation to the Harlem Renaissance. The balanced selection of women and men is similar to that found in Henry Louis Gates's Norton Anthology of African American Literature but the inclusion of lesser-known figures and works is aimed at focusing on the ideology of the renaissance, gay and lesbian themes, and differences in gender-based issues. Countee Cullen, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston are among the authors represented, and the selected works include essays, poetry, prose, and drama, with lyrics and visual art used as illustration. The editors also break with the tendency to define the beginning and end of the renaissance with political events by focusing on specific literary works, which allows them to broaden the period to 1916-37. Both editors have done previous research in the field of African American women's literature and include a biographical sketch of each writer to underline how their gender, class, and sexual orientation shaped their work. Necessary for all academic libraries.
— Library JournalWith this new anthology of Harlem Renaissance literature, Patton (Women in Chains: The Legacy of Slavery in Black Women's Fiction) and Honey (editor, Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance), both at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, attempt to "restore and underline the importance of women's writing" and sexual orientation to the Harlem Renaissance. The balanced selection of women and men is similar to that found in Henry Louis Gates's Norton Anthology of African American Literature but the inclusion of lesser-known figures and works is aimed at focusing on the ideology of the renaissance, gay and lesbian themes, and differences in gender-based issues. Countee Cullen, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston are among the authors represented, and the selected works include essays, poetry, prose, and drama, with lyrics and visual art used as illustration. The editors also break with the tendency to define the beginning and end of the renaissance with political events by focusing on specific literary works, which allows them to broaden the period to 1916-37. Both editors have done previous research in the field of African American women's literature and include a biographical sketch of each writer to underline how their gender, class, and sexual orientation shaped their work. Necessary for all academic libraries.
— Library JournalTABLE OF CONTENTS
Alain Locke The New Negro 3 A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen The New Negro-What Is He? 7 William Stanley Braithwaite The Negro in American Literature 10 Ruth Whitehead Whaley Closed Doors: A Study in Segregation 17 James WeldonJohnson Harlem: The Culture Capital 21 Brenda Ray Moryck A Point of View: An Opportunity Dinner Reaction 28 George S. Schuyler The Negro-Art Hokum 36 Langston Hughes The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain 40 Amy Jacques Garvey On Langston Hughes: I Am a Negro-and Beautiful 45 WE.B. Du Bois Criteria of Negro Art 47 Richard Wright Blueprint for Negro Writing 52 Zora Neale Hurston Characteristics of Negro Expression 61 Jessie Redmon Fauset Impressions of the Second Pan-African Congress 75 Marcus Garvey Africa for the Africans 83 W A. Domingo Gift of the Black Tropics 90 Rudolph Fisher The Caucasian Storms Harlem 96 Elise Johnson McDougald The Task of Negro Womanhood 103 Marita 0. Bonner On Being Young-a Woman-and Colored 109 Alice Dunbar-Nelson Woman's Most Serious Problem 113 Marion Vera Cuthbert Problems Facing Negro Young Women 116 Alain Locke The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts 121 Joel A. Rogers Jazz at Home 127 Gwendolyn B. Bennett The American Negro Paints 134 James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) 139 POEMS The Creation 140 Mother Night 142 The White Witch 142 My City 144 Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) 145 POEMS Violets 147 You! Inez! 147 I Sit and Sew 148 The Proletariat Speaks 148 STORY His Great Career 150 Georgia Douglas Johnson (1877-1966) 152 POEMS The Heart of a Woman 153 Motherhood 154 The Octoroon 154 Escape 155 The Black Runner 156 Wishes 156 I Want to Die While You Love Me 158 STORY Tramp Love 159 PLAY Plumes: A Folk Tragedy 163 Angelina Weld Grimke (1880-1958) 170 POEMS ElBeso 171 The Black Finger 172 The Want of You 1 72 Dusk 172 A Mona Lisa 173 Tenebris 174 STORY Goldie 174 PLAY Rachel 189 Anne Spencer (1882-1975) 227 POEMS White Things 228 Lady, Lady 229 Letter to My Sister 229 Grapes: Still-Life 230 Black Man o' Mine 231 Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) 232 POEMS Oriflamme 234 Here's April! 234 W ords! Words! 235 Touche 235 La Vie C'Est la Vie 236 STORY Mary Elizabeth 237 Effie Lee Newsome (a k a Mary Effie Lee) (1885-1979) 243 POEMS The Bronze Legacy (To a Brown Boy) 243 Exodus 244 The Bird in the Cage 244 The Quilt 245 John E Matheus (1887-1983) 246 POEMS Requiem 247 In Haiti Is Riot of Color- 247 STORY Fog 248 PLAY 'Cruiter 257 Fenton Johnson (1888-1958) 268 POEMS The Banjo Player 268 The Scarlet Woman 270 Tired 270 Claude McKay (1889-1948) 271 POEMS The Harlem Dancer 272 If We Must Die 273 Africa 273 America 275 Baptism 275 Harlem Shadows 276 To O.E.A. 276 Like a Strong Tree 277 The Tropics in New York 277 STORY Mattie and Her Sweetman 278 Willis Richardson (1889-1977) 286 PLAYS The Chip Woman's Fortune 287 The Flight of the Natives 303 Anita Scott Coleman (1890-1960) 314 POEMS Wash Day 314 Definition 314 Black Baby 316 Black-Faces - --- 31 6 Negro Laughter 317 STORY Two Old Women A-Shopping Go! A Story of Man, Marriage and Poverty 317 Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) 322 POEM Passion 324 STORIES Spunk 325 Sweat 329 PLAY Color Struck 338 Nella Larsen (1891-1964) 352 STORY Sanctuary 353 Eulalie Spence (1894-1981) 358 PLAY Undertow 360 Jean Toomer (1894-1967) 371 POEMS Song of the Son 372 Georgia Dusk 373 Portrait in Georgia 374 STORY Blood-Burning Moon 375 Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr (1895-1919) 381 POEMS And What Shall You Say? 381 Is It Because I Am Black? 382 Sonnet to Negro Soldiers 382 Rain Music 383 PLAY On the Fields of France 384 Rudolph Fisher (1897-1934) 386 STORIES The City of Refuge 388 Miss Cynthie 400 Eric Walrond (1898-1966) 410 STORY The Voodoo's Revenge 411 May Miller (1899-1995) 419 PLAY Riding the Goat 421 Marita 0. Bonner (18Q9-1Q7.) - ---- 434 STORY One Boy's Story 434 PLAY The Pot Maker 444 Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989) 450 POEMS Ma Rainey 451 Sam Smiley 453 Southern Road 454 Strong Men 456 Langston Hughes (1902-1967) 458 POEMS The Negro Speaks of Rivers 460 Danse Africaine 460 Jazzonia 461 Song to a Negro Wash-Woman 461 Dream Variation 462 Desire 463 Poem [2] 463 The Weary Blues 464 To Midnight Nan at Leroy's 465 Lullaby 466 Listen Here Blues 466 Bound No'th Blues 468 Song for a Dark Girl 469 STORY The Blues I'm Playing 469 PLAY Mulatto: A Tragedy of the Deep South 476 Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902-1981) 506 POEMS Heritage 508 To a Dark Girl 508 Hatred 509 Advice 509 Fantasy 510 STORIES Wedding Day 511 Tokens 516 Wallace Thurman (1902-1934) 520 POEMS The Last Citadel 521 God's Edict 521 STORIES Cordelia the Crude 523 Emma Lou 526 Ama Bontemps (1902-1973) 538 POEMS GolgothaIs- a- Mountain 539 Length of Moon 541 Nocturne at Bethesda 541 A Black Man Talks of Reaping 544 God Give to Men 544 The Return 545 STORY A Summer Tragedy 546 Countee Cullen (1903-1946) 554 POEMS Heritage 555 Sacrament 558 Tableau 558 Yet Do I Marvel 559 From the Dark Tower 559 Colored Blues Singer 561 To Certain Critics 562 Little Sonnet to Little Friends 562 Gladys May Casely Hayford (a k a Aquah Laluah) (1904-1950) 563 POEMS Rainy Season Love Song 564 The Serving Girl 564 Lullaby 565 The Palm Wine Seller 565 (William) Waring Cuney (1906-1976) 567 POEMS No Images 568 Dust 568 The Radical 569 Richard Bruce Nugent (a k a Richard Bruce) (1906-1987) 570 POEM Shadow 571 STORIES Sahdji 573 Smoke, Lilies, and Jade! 574 PLAY Sahdji, an African Ballet 583 Dorothy West (1907-1998) 590 STORIES The Typewriter 591 The Black Dress 597 HeleneJohnson (1907-1995) 599 POEMS My Race 601 Magalu 601 The Road 602 Mother 602 Bottled 602 Poem 604 Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem 605 Mae V Cowdery (1909-1953) 606 POEMS Dusk 607 Heritage 608 Insatiate 608 Poem ... for a Lover 609
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