1st Edition
The Politics and Aesthetics of New Negro Literature
Edited By Cary D. Wintz
Copyright 1996
396 Pages
by
Routledge
Black writers and intellectuals struggled to articulate an aesthetic for African American literature and to define the appropriate relationship between an African American literary movement and the racial politics of the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. This volume contains examples of the literature of the 1920s-one element of a black cultural movement that included music, art, and theater.... Read more
Volume Introduction; Ebony and Topaz: A Collectanea; Defining the Harlem Renaissance and Black Literature; Art, Theater, and Music; Setting the Political Agenda for the Harlem Renaissance; The Politics of Publishing—Letters and Memos; The Politics of the New Negro, Acknowledgements.
Biography
Cary D. Wintz is Professor of History at Texas Southern University in Houston. He received his undergraduate education at Rice University and his Ph.D. from Kansas State University. He is the author of many books, articles, and book reviews, mostly in the field of African American history or immigrant/ethnic history, and he has lectured internationally on these topics as a USIA lecturer in both the Philippines and India.
