West of Harlem: African American Writers and the Borderlands

by Emily Lutenski

Book Overview

Finalist, Weber-Clements Prize

Luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance--Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Wallace Thurman, and Arna Bontemps, among others--are associated with, well . . . Harlem. But the story of these New York writers unexpectedly extends to the American West. Hughes, for instance, grew up in Kansas, Thurman in Utah, and Bontemps in Los Angeles. Toomer traveled often to New Mexico. Indeed, as West of Harlem...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700635602
• ISBN13: 9780700635603
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"