CONTENTS VOLUME 1. Foreword by Trudier Harris-Lopez... xi

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1 Foreword by Trudier Harris-Lopez xi Preface xv Acknowledgments xix Chronology of Key Events in the Harlem Renaissance xxix VOLUME 1 Overviews and General Studies of the Harlem Renaissance Representative Works Primary Sources Overviews Background and Sources of the Harlem Renaissance The New Negro Aesthetic Patrons, Promoters, and the New York Public Library Women of the Harlem Renaissance Further Reading Social, Economic, and Political Factors that Influenced the Harlem Renaissance Introduction Representative Works Primary Sources Overviews Social and Economic Factors Black Intellectual and Political Thought Further Reading Publishing and Periodicals during the Harlem Renaissance Introduction Representative Works Primary Sources Overviews African American Writers and Mainstream Publishers Anthologies: The New Negro and Others African American Periodicals and the Harlem Renaissance Further Reading Performing Arts during the Harlem Renaissance Introduction Representative Works Primary Sources Overviews Drama of the Harlem Renaissance Film and the Harlem Renaissance Influence of Music on Harlem Renaissance Writing Further Reading v

2 Visual Arts during the Harlem Renaissance Introduction Representative Works Primary Sources Overviews Painters Sculptors Photographers Further Reading Author Index Title Index Subject Index VOLUME 2 Gwendolyn Bennett American poet, short story writer, journalist, and artist Principal Works General Commentary Further Reading Marita Bonner American short story writer, playwright, Introduction Principal Works General Commentary Further Reading Arna Bontemps American novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer, children s writer, young adult writer, biographer, playwright, historian, literary critic, and editor Introduction Principal Works Primary Sources General Commentary Title Commentary Further Reading William Stanley Braithwaite American editor, poet, historian, biographer, critic, essayist, and novelist Introduction Principal Works General Commentary Further Reading Sterling Allen Brown American poet, literary critic, essayist, and folklorist Introduction Principal Works Primary Sources General Commentary Title Commentary Further Reading Countee Cullen American poet, novelist, editor, and children s writer Introduction Principal Works Primary Sources General Commentary Title Commentary Further Reading W. E. B. Du Bois American social scientist, autobiographer, essayist, novelist, and poet Introduction Principal Works Primary Sources General Commentary Further Reading Alice Dunbar-Nelson American poet, fiction writer, journalist, and playwright Introduction Principal Works Primary Sources General Commentary Further Reading Jessie Redmon Fauset American editor, novelist, poet, Introduction Principal Works Primary Sources General Commentary Title Commentary Further Reading vi HARLEM RENAISSANCE: A GALE CRITICAL COMPANION, VOL. 1

3 Rudolph Fisher American novelist, short story writer, Introduction Principal Works Primary Sources General Commentary Title Commentary Further Reading Zora Neale Hurston American novelist, folklorist, essayist, short story writer, and playwright Introduction Principal Works Primary Sources General Commentary Title Commentary Further Reading Marcus Garvey Jamaican political philosopher, essayist, editor, and poet Introduction Principal Works Primary Sources General Commentary Further Reading Author Index Title Index Subject Index Angelina Weld Grimké American poet, playwright, and short story writer Introduction Principal Works General Commentary Title Commentary Further Reading DuBose Heyward American poet, novelist, playwright, and librettist Introduction Principal Works General Commentary Title Commentary Further Reading Frank S. Horne American poet Introduction Principal Works General Commentary Further Reading Langston Hughes American poet, short story writer, nonfiction writer, novelist, librettist, and playwright Introduction Principal Works Primary Sources General Commentary Title Commentary Further Reading VOLUME 3 Charles Spurgeon Johnson American nonfiction writer, editor, researcher, and educator Principal Works Primary Sources General Commentary Further Reading Georgia Douglas Johnson American poet, playwright, short story writer, and composer Introduction Principal Works General Commentary Further Reading Helene Johnson American poet Introduction Principal Works General Commentary Further Reading James Weldon Johnson American poet, novelist, editor, critic, and publisher Introduction Principal Works Primary Sources General Commentary HARLEM RENAISSANCE: A GALE CRITICAL COMPANION, VOL. 1 vii

4 Title Commentary Further Reading Nella Larsen American novelist and short story writer Introduction Principal Works Primary Sources General Commentary Title Commentary Further Reading Alain Locke American philosopher, social and political theorist, critic, Introduction Principal Works Primary Sources General Commentary Further Reading Claude McKay 1889?-1948 Jamaican-born American poet, novelist, essayist, and journalist Introduction Principal Works Primary Sources General Commentary Title Commentary Further Reading General Commentary Title Commentary Further Reading Anne Spencer American poet Introduction Principal Works Primary Sources General Commentary Further Reading Wallace Thurman American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, editor, and critic Introduction Principal Works Primary Sources General Commentary Title Commentary Further Reading Jean Toomer American poet, prose writer, essayist, and playwright Introduction Principal Works Primary Sources General Commentary Title Commentary Further Reading Richard Bruce Nugent American short story writer, poet, and artist Introduction Principal Works General Commentary Further Reading Willis Richardson American playwright, essayist, and editor Introduction Principal Works General Commentary Further Reading George Samuel Schuyler American novelist, journalist, essayist, and critic Introduction Principal Works Carl Van Vechten American novelist, critic, and photographer Introduction Principal Works General Commentary Title Commentary Further Reading Eric Walrond Guyanese short story writer, essayist, and editor Introduction Principal Works General Commentary Title Commentary Further Reading Dorothy West American novelist and short story writer Introduction Principal Works viii HARLEM RENAISSANCE: A GALE CRITICAL COMPANION, VOL. 1

5 General Commentary Title Commentary Further Reading Walter White American novelist, journalist, and essayist Introduction Principal Works Primary Sources General Commentary Title Commentary Further Reading Author Index Title Index Subject Index HARLEM RENAISSANCE: A GALE CRITICAL COMPANION, VOL. 1 ix