A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance

<p>Notes on Contributors ix</p>
<p>Introduction: Harlem as Shorthand: The Persistent Value of the Harlem Renaissance 1<br />Cherene Sherrard–Johnson</p>
<p>Part I Foundations 15</p>
<p>1 What Renaissance?: A Deep Genealogy of Black Culture in Nineteenth–Century New York City 17<br />Carla L. Peterson</p>
<p>2 Postbellum, Pre–Harlem: Black Writing before the Renaissance 35<br />Andre&aacute; N. Williams</p>
<p>3 Harlem Nights: Expressive Culture, Popular Performance, and the New Negro 51<br />Jayna Brown</p>
<p>4 The New Negro and the New South 65<br />Erin D. Chapman</p>
<p>Part II Spotlight: Readings and Genre 81</p>
<p>5 All the loving words I never dared to speak : Angelina Weld Grimk&eacute; s Sapphic Modernism 83<br />Maureen Honey</p>
<p>6 Modernism and the Urban Frontier in the Work of Dorothy West and Helene Johnson 103<br />Cynthia Davis and Verner D. Mitchell</p>
<p>7 Blueprints for Negro Reading: Sterling Brown s Study Guides 119<br />Sonya Posmentier</p>
<p>8 Fashioning Internationalism in Jessie Redmon Fauset s Writing 137<br />Elizabeth M. Sheehan</p>
<p>9 The New Negro Iconoclast, or, The Curious Case of George Samuel Schuyler 155<br />Ivy G. Wilson</p>
<p>10 Nella Larsen s Spiritual Strivings 171<br />Kathy L. Glass</p>
<p>11 Pastoral and the Problem of Place in Claude McKay s Harlem Shadows 187<br />Jennifer Chang</p>
<p>12 Gwendolyn Bennett: A Leading Voice of the Harlem Renaissance 203<br />Belinda Wheeler</p>
<p>13 Reconsidering the Literary Career of Chicago s Zara Wright 219<br />Rynetta Davis</p>
<p>14 Betwixt and between : Zora Neale Hurston In and Out of Harlem 231<br />Carla Kaplan</p>
<p>Part III Salon Culture: The Visual, Performative, and Expressive Arts 249</p>
<p>15 Salon Cultures and Spaces of Culture Edification 251<br />Andr&eacute; m. Carrington</p>
<p>16 The Sensuous Harlem Renaissance: Sexuality and Queer Culture 267<br />Shane Vogel</p>
<p>17 Changing Optics: Harlem Renaissance Theater and Performance 285<br />Soyica Diggs Colbert</p>
<p>18 Phonography, Race Records, and the Blues Poetry of Langston Hughes 301<br />Lisa Hollenbach</p>
<p>19 Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Sculpture of the Harlem Renaissance 317<br />Kirsten Pai Buick</p>
<p>Part IV Interracialism 337</p>
<p>20 Authenticity and the Boundaries of Blackness 339<br />J. Martin Favor</p>
<p>21 Black Marxism and the Literary Left 351<br />Gary Edward Holcomb</p>
<p>22 Light, bright and damn near white : Representations of Mixed Race in the Harlem Renaissance 369<br />Michele Elam</p>
<p>Part V Beyond Harlem: New Geographies and Lasting Influences 385</p>
<p>23 The Aesthetics of Anticipation: The Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement 387<br />Margo Natalie Crawford</p>
<p>24 The Lost Years or a Decade of Progress ?: African American Writers and the Second World War 403<br />Vaughn Rasberry</p>
<p>25 Ethiopia in the Verse of the Late Harlem Renaissance 423<br />Nadia Nurhussein</p>
<p>26 Mapping the Harlem Renaissance in the Americas 441<br />Michael Soto</p>
<p>27 Virtual Harlem: Experiencing the New Negro Renaissance 457<br />Bryan Carter</p>
<p>Index 473</p>