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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 294–319.
Published: 01 August 2010
... in Harlem and instigator of a major crusade against comic books throughout the 1950s. Ellison's published writings and those stored at the Library of Congress make apparent that issues surrounding the comic book culture of the Cold War directly link up with many of Invisible Man 's bigger themes...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 May 2018
...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...
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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 443–465.
Published: 01 November 2010
... been a general reluctance to approach these categories together, even while anecdotally history records numerous engagements between the two. Ellison, for example, worked closely with Richard Wright and Dr. Fredric Wertham to establish Harlem's LaFargue Clinic, the first and, in its time, only...
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Novel (2003) 36 (2): 273–276.
Published: 01 August 2003
.... Similar to Chesnutt's historiciza-
tion of his own work in "Post-bellurn-Pre-Harlem" (1931), many twentieth-century criti-
cal and scholarly readings of Chesnutt, including the morr recent ones indicted by
McWilliams, have consistently recognized two major US cultural and racial-political...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 123–127.
Published: 01 May 2017
... exposure to asylums began at the LaFargue Psychiatric Clinic in Harlem, one of the few places where psychiatric care could be found for African Americans in the 1940s. Founded by Ellison, Richard Wright, the psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, and others, LaFargue serves as a backdrop for Ellison's essay “Harlem...
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Novel (2006) 39 (2): 295–298.
Published: 01 August 2006
... of the failure of Iaw enforcement to ensure
safety to African Americans (60). From this it follows that Himes created his black detec-
tive protagonists8Crave Digger and Coffin E& as part of itis renovation of U.S. law en-
forcement practices. Their discovery of the links between Harlem's vice industry...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 368–371.
Published: 01 August 2016
... 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...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 165–169.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of African American writers and artists in 1920s and 1930s Harlem modernist culture. This time the orthodoxy to be desecrated is exemplified by Alan Locke's anthology The New Negro (1932), and the blasphemers are instead the members of the coterie that called themselves “the Niggeratti”: Wallace Thurman...
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Novel (1999) 33 (1): v.
Published: 01 May 1999
... of the mulatta figure in the visual art and literature of the Harlem
Renaissance. ...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 151–168.
Published: 01 November 2002
...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...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 169–192.
Published: 01 November 2002
... 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...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 324–326.
Published: 01 November 2002
... for the acuity of Razaf's popular song lyrics, iden+dying
their "impure, if not illegitimate, task: breeding the casual, risqu6, and urbane theatrical
mode that ruled Harlem evenings with the service work that filled most Harlemites' days"
(231). Janice Walker painstakingly reconstructs expectations...
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Novel (1999) 33 (1): 150–152.
Published: 01 May 1999
... to the recent publication of works like RIwrpsodies in Black: Art
ofthe Harlem Renazssance-a collection of essays edited by Richard J. Powell that examines
film, visual art, music, literature and popular cultur~BillingsIea-Brownsituates her
work within cultural studies, feminist theory, literary...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 463–479.
Published: 01 November 2022
... two chapters—and to which it in fact reverts in the immediately succeeding sentence: “Europe can [not could ] no longer guard.” Similarly abrupt tense switches pepper the remainder of the narrative (all emphasis in the succeeding quotations is added unless otherwise noted): Harlem “astrodetective...
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Novel (2000) 33 (3): 377–405.
Published: 01 November 2000
... 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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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 376–379.
Published: 01 August 2016
... 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...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 281–298.
Published: 01 November 2002
... . Hutchinson , George . The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White . Cambridge: Belknap, 1995 . Ishay , Micheline R. Internationalism and its Betrayal . Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1995 . Jordan , Winthrop D. White over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro 1550–1812...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 211–230.
Published: 01 November 2002
... 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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Novel (2020) 53 (1): 16–36.
Published: 01 May 2020
... couple” in the process of being evicted from their Harlem apartment (270). Subsequent to his escape from the scene, the narrator is approached by Jack, who, impressed by the narrator's ability to engage the crowd, wants to recruit him to the Brotherhood. In their conversation, Jack tells his incredulous...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 441–451.
Published: 01 November 2017
... 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-centered terms” (39), opening a space for critique and the reading of black women's...
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