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Harlem Renaissance : four novels of the 1930s

Zafar, Rafia, Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. Not without laughter, Schuyler, George S. (George Samuel), 1895-1977. Black no more, Fisher, Rudolph, 1897-1934. Conjure-man dies, Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973. Black thunder

2011

Overview

Four Novels of the 1930s captures the diversity of genre and tone nourished by the Renaissance. Langston Hughes's Not Without Laughter (1931)--the poet's only novel, an elegiac, elegantly realized coming-of-age tale suffused with childhood memories of Missouri and Kansas--follows a young man from his rural origins to the big city. George S. Schuyler's Black No More (1931), a satire founded on the science-fiction premise of a wonder drug permitting blacks to change their race, savagely caricatures public figures white and black alike in its raucous, carnivalesque send-up of American racial attitudes. Considered the first detective story by an African American writer, Rudolph Fisher's The Conjur-Man Dies (1932) is a mystery that comically mixes and reverses stereotypes, placing a Harvard-educated African \"conjure-man\" at the center of a phantasmagoric charade of deaths and disappearances. Black Thunder (1936), Arna Bontemps's stirring fictional recreation of Gabriel Prosser's 1800 slave revolt, which, though unsuccessful, shook Jefferson's Virginia to its core, marks a turn from aestheticism toward political militance in its exploration of African American history.\"--Dust jacket.

• Publisher: Library of America
• Subject: American fiction African American authors. / American fiction New York (State) New York. / American fiction 20th century. / African Americans Fiction. / Harlem Renaissance.
• ISBN: 9781598531015, 1598531018

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS508.N3 H368 2011	1	BOOK	GENERAL