Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s (LOA #217)
Cane / Home to Harlem / Quicksand / Plum Bun / The Blacker the Berry
Jean Toomer, Claude McKay, Nella Larsen, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Wallace Thurman
ISBN: | 9781598530995 |
Publisher: | Library of America |
Published: | 1 September, 2011 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Language: | English |
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Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s (LOA #217)
Cane / Home to Harlem / Quicksand / Plum Bun / The Blacker the Berry
Jean Toomer, Claude McKay, Nella Larsen, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Wallace Thurman
HARLEM RENAISSANCE: Five Novels of the 1920s leads off with Jean Toomer's Cane (1923), a unique fusion of fiction, poetry, and drama rooted in Toomer's experiences as a teacher in Georgia. Toomer's masterpiece was followed within a few years by a cluster of novels exploring black experience and the dilemmas of black identity in a variety of modes and from different angles. Claude McKay's Home to Harlem (1928), whose freewheeling, impressionistic, bawdy kaleidoscope of Jazz Age nightlife made it a best seller, traces the picaresque adventures of Jake, a World War I veteran, within and beyond Harlem. Nella Larsen's Quicksand (1928), the poignant, nuanced psychological portrait of a woman caught between the two worlds of her mixed Scandinavian and African American heritage; Jessie Redmon Fauset's Plum Bun (1928), the richly detailed account of a young art student's struggles to advance her career in a society full of obstacles both overt and insidiously concealed; and Wallace Thurman's The Blacker the Berry (1929), with its anguished, provocative look at prejudice and exclusion as it tells of a new arrival in Harlem searching for love, each in its distinct way testifies to the enduring power of the Harlem ferment.
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