...Matthew Krumholtz Abstract This essay explores how novelists of the Harlem Renaissance deploy small talk to disrupt racial identification. Nella Larsen's Passing (1929) serves as a case study showing that small talk magnifies a strange intimacy between passing narratives and etiquette manuals...

... events, namely the Civil War of the 1860s and the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, as the major historical brackets of Chesnutt's work. Simply put, previous studies of Chesnutt have almost always considered Chesnutt's work in terms of the nineteenth and twentieth centu- ries. The historical breadth...

... of Primitivism in Harlem Renaissance Writing.” Soundings 80 . 4 ( 1997 ): 475 –97. McSweeney , Kerry . Invisible Man: Race and Identity . Boston: Twayne, 1988 . Micale , Mark , ed. The Mind of Modernism: Medicine, Psychology, and the Cultural Arts in Europe and America, 1880–1940 . Palo...

... of American authors, including Theodore Dreiser, Henry James, Charles Chesnutt, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells. As Sawaya points out early in The Difficult Art of Giving , her study of these well-known authors emerged out of a discussion of a different literary scene, the Harlem Renaissance...

... of the mulatta figure in the visual art and literature of the Harlem Renaissance. ...

...MADHU DUBEY Copyright © Novel Corp. 2002 2002 Works Cited Baker , Houston A. Jr . Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1987 . Bell , Bernard W. Clarence Major and His Art: Portraits of an African American Postmodernist . Chapel Hill: U...

... England as an Emergent Culture.” Modern Language Quarterly 54 ( 1993 ): 327 –44. Baldwin , James . “Everybody’s Protest Novel.” 1955. Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism From the Harlem Renaissance to the Present . Ed. Angelyn Mitchell. Durham: Duke UP...

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... Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present. Ed. Angelyn Mitchell. Durham: Duke UP, 1994 . 235–55. Hall , Stuart . “Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities.” Culture, Globalization and the World-System: Contemporary Conditions for the Representation of Identity . Ed. Anthony D...

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... precursors, took ‘woman’ to mean ‘white woman’” ( 39 ). Alongside her antisexist and antiracist critiques, Bambara gathers the work of black women writers to “showcase” and celebrate them while “recasting recent historical periods like the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s in women...

... a Gastprofessor in the Amerika- Institut at Ludwig Maximilians Universitlt in ~iinchen,where I was very ably assisted in the research by Anne Stadler and Katrin Windolf. NOVEL I SPRING 2003 Pound, Joyce, Eliot, Stevens, for example) and artists of the Harlem Renaissance (Du Bois...

... a similarly productive time for black female novelists like Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, and Hurston, who helped shape the era known as the Harlem Renaissance. The middle decades likewise had hardly been a dry spell with the appearance of masterworks such as Ann Petry's The Street (1946)—the first novel I...

... . London: Routledge, 1994 . Hutchinson , George . The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White . Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1995 . Hyman , Stanley Edgar . The Armed Vision: A Study in the Methods of Modern Literary Criticism . New York: Knopf, 1948 . Iser , Wolfgang . The Implied...

... for social mobility and the narrative's representation of black women's historically fixed conditions” (54–56). The payoff of this historically grounded approach is particularly evident in Hardison's reading of Petry, who depicts against a backdrop of urban decay in Harlem her protagonist Lutie's thwarted...

... of the African American as Ofher than reason. But, unlike Major in Reflex, Morrison does offer southern black folk culture as an alternative to the dominant white society. Jazz is set in Harlem in the mid-1920s and deals with the migration of large numbers of African Americans (embodied in Joe and Violet...