Rereading the Harlem Renaissance: Race, Class, and Gender in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dorothy West

by Sharon L. Jones

African American writers of the Harlem Renaissance generally fall into three aesthetic categories: the folk, which emphasizes oral traditions, African American English, rural settings, and characters from lower socioeconomic levels; the bourgeois, which privileges characters from middle class backgrounds; and the proletarian, which favors overt critiques of oppression by contending that art should be an instrument of propaganda. Depending on critical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313323267
• ISBN13: 9780313323263
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.7"