1st Edition
Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance A Critical Assessment
By Leon Coleman
Copyright 1998
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book evaluates Carl Van Vechten's contribution to the Harlem Renaissance by presenting hitherto unexamined documentary evidence. The author draws on correspondence, manuscripts, personal memorabilia, and published materials to examine the origins and development of the period in the 1920s which was termed the New Negro Renaissance. In the later years of the 1920s, as a result of the success... Read more
A Note on the Text, Acknowledgments, Chapter One: Introduction, Chapter Two: Background of the Negro Renaissance, Chapter Three: The Beginnings of the Negro Renaissance, Chapter Four: Some Important Aspects of the Negro Renaissance, Chapter Five: Enter Carl Van Vechten, Chapter Six: Carl Van Vechten Presents the New Negro, Chapter Seven: My Only Serious Novel- Nigger Heaven, Chapter Eight: The Influence of Nigger Heaven Upon Harlem Renaissance Authors, Chapter Nine: Conclusion, Bibliography, Index
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Leon Coleman
