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Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s (Loa #217): Cane / Home to Harlem / Quicksand / Plum Bun / The Blacker the Berry

Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s (Loa #217): Cane / Home to Harlem / Quicksand / Plum Bun / The Blacker the Berry

Zafar, Rafia

Hardcover

Series: Library of America Harlem Renaissance Novels Collection, Book 1

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $35.00

ISBN10: 1598530992
ISBN13: 9781598530995
Publisher: Library of America
Published: Sep 1 2011
Pages: 800
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.53 Width: 5.14 Depth: 8.23
Language: English
HARLEM RENAISSANCE: Five Novels of the 1920s leads off with Jean Toomer's Cane (1923), a unique fusion of fiction, poetry, and drama rooted in Toomer's experiences as a teacher in Georgia. Toomer's masterpiece was followed within a few years by a cluster of novels exploring black experience and the dilemmas of black identity in a variety of modes and from different angles. Claude McKay's Home to Harlem (1928), whose freewheeling, impressionistic, bawdy kaleidoscope of Jazz Age nightlife made it a best seller, traces the picaresque adventures of Jake, a World War I veteran, within and beyond Harlem. Nella Larsen's Quicksand (1928), the poignant, nuanced psychological portrait of a woman caught between the two worlds of her mixed Scandinavian and African American heritage; Jessie Redmon Fauset's Plum Bun (1928), the richly detailed account of a young art student's struggles to advance her career in a society full of obstacles both overt and insidiously concealed; and Wallace Thurman's The Blacker the Berry (1929), with its anguished, provocative look at prejudice and exclusion as it tells of a new arrival in Harlem searching for love, each in its distinct way testifies to the enduring power of the Harlem ferment.

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