Analysis and Assessment, 1940-1979Cary D. Wintz Taylor & Francis, 1996 - 504 pages Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare's play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company production in 1991. The criticism centers on three aspects of the play: the love/friendship debate. |
Contents
The Harlem of Langston Hughes Poetry | 24 |
The AlienandExile Theme in Countee Cullens | 32 |
Negro Fiction in America | 43 |
Bias Fiction and the Negro | 55 |
Introduction to Voices from the Harlem Renaissance | 65 |
The Negros Negro in Negro Literature | 74 |
The Negros Image of the Universe as Reflected in His Fiction | 80 |
The Harlem Literary Renaissance | 91 |
The Black Writer | 281 |
A Renaissance Man in the Harlem Renaissance | 303 |
Jessie Redmon Fauset and the Harlem | 313 |
The Image of the Primitive in Black Letters | 325 |
Towards a Black Aesthetic | 336 |
The Alienation of Negro Literature | 347 |
The Didactic and the Literary in Four Harlem | 357 |
Walter White and the Harlem Renaissance | 371 |
On Negro Literature | 98 |
Design and Movement in Cane | 107 |
Some Reflections on the Negro Novel | 124 |
The Problems of the Negro Writer | 135 |
American Negro Literature | 149 |
The Poetry of Countee Cullen | 162 |
An Essay in Criticism | 168 |
René Maran and the New Negro | 182 |
Of Negroes Old and | 198 |
The Harlem Renaissance and Today | 212 |
The Politics and Aesthetics of the Harlem Renaissance | 234 |
The Van Vechten Vogue | 252 |
Race and Revolution in Negro Literature | 266 |
Integration and Race Literature | 275 |
Charles S Johnson | 381 |
Ambivalence and Hope | 393 |
The Writers and Poets | 403 |
A Kansas Poet in the Harlem Renaissance | 414 |
The Essential McKay | 428 |
An Evaluation | 447 |
Lost Generation or Negro Renaissance? | 454 |
The Short Stories of Rudolph Fisher | 463 |
Zora Neale Hurston Novelist and Folklorist | 477 |
Claude McKay and the New Negro of the 1920s | 485 |
A Novel Folklorist | 495 |
Acknowledgments | |
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