Format:
Online-Ressource (xxvi, 338 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0253344433
Series Statement:
Blacks in the diaspora
Content:
The Harlem Renaissance, the period associated with the flowering of the arts in Harlem, inaugurated a tradition of African American children's literature, for the movement's central writers made youth both their subject and audience. W.E.B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, Langston Hughes, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and other Harlem Renaissance figures took an impassioned interest in the literary models offered to children, believing that the "New Negro" would ultimately arise from black youth. As a result, African
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-325) and index
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Cover; TOC; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Emblematic Black Child: Du Bois's Crisis Publications; 2. Creating the Past, Present, and Future: New Negro Children'sDrama; 3. The Legacy of the South: Revisiting the Plantation Tradition; 4. The Peacemakers: Carter G. Woodson's Circle; 5. The Aesthetics of Black Children's Literature: Arna Bontempsand Langston Hughes; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253344434
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Children's Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
Language:
English
