Rereading the Harlem renaissance

Description

"This rereading of the Harlem Renaissance gives special attention to Fauset, Hurston, and West. Jones argues that all three aesthetics influence each of their works, that they have been historically mislabeled, and that they share a drive to challenge racial, class, and gender oppression. The introduction provides a detailed historical overview of the Harlem Renaissance and the prevailing aesthetics of the period. Individual chapters analyze the works of Hurston, West, and Fauset to demonstrate how the folk, bourgeois, and proletarian aesthetics figure into their writings. The volume concludes by discussing the writers in relation to contemporary African American women authors."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Series Statement

• Contributions in Afro-American and African studies,

Other Editions

• Rereading the Harlem renaissance: race, class, and gender in the fiction of Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dorothy WestGreenwood Press2002-01-01
• Rereading the Harlem RenaissanceABC-CLIO, LLC2002-01-01