Editing the Harlem Renaissance

Book Overview

In his introduction to the foundational 1925 text The New Negro, Alain Locke described the Old Negro as a creature of moral debate and historical controversy, necessitating a metamorphosis into a literary art that embraced modernism and left sentimentalism behind. This was the underlying
theoretical background that contributed to the flowering of African American culture and art that would come to be called the Harlem Renaissance. While the popular...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1949979555
• ISBN13: 9781949979558
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Clemson University Press W/ Lup
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"