The Harlem Renaissance Remembered: Essays
- ISBN-10
- 0396065171
- ISBN-13
- 9780396065173
- Pages
- 310
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1972
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead
- Author
- Arna Bontemps
Description
The distinguished man of letters, Arna Bontemps, was among the talented array of black writers who gravitated to New York and constituted what became known as the Harlem Renaissance. In the fields of prose, poetry, and drama, they were the foundations upon which the younger black writers could build, and made names such as Langston Hughes, W. E. B. DuBois, James Weldon Johnson, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, and Zora Neale Hurston, along with Arna Bontemps, have a permanent place in the roster of American letters. As director of the Afro-American program at Yale, Mr. Bontemps instituted a study in depth of the various aspects of the Harlem Renaissance. Reproduced in this volume are the observations of participants in that study. These perceptive and objective profiles and appraisals, together with notes and bibliographies, give a unique picture of one of the most important legacies in American literature. -- From publisher's description.
