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Irreverent Intimacy: Nella Larsen’s Revisions of Edith Wharton
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 32–62.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Emily J. Orlando This essay examines Harlem Renaissance novelist Nella Larsen’s career-long conversation with the fiction of Edith Wharton. Although Larsen cared little for the suggestion that she “had gone to Mrs. Wharton for her lessons in writing,” likely because the comparison cast doubt...
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The Homoerotics of “Negrotarian” Patronage in Langston Hughes’s “The Blues I’m Playing”
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (1): 75–100.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Nancy Kang This essay argues that Langston Hughes’s acclaimed short story “The Blues I’m Playing” (1934) offers provocative feminist and queer insights into “Negrotarian” patronage of the early twentieth century. Against the backdrop of the Harlem Renaissance, the discussion sets out to define...
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The Modern Plantation Empire and Eric Walrond’s Tropic Death
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (2): 95–126.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Will Edmonstone The Caribbean-born, Harlem Renaissance writer Eric Walrond is beginning to receive increased attention among scholars interested in transnational modernisms, Black diaspora cultures, and postcolonialism. Although he died in obscurity, his collection of short stories, Tropic Death...
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Julian Mayfield and Alternative Civil Rights Literatures
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 115–140.
Published: 01 June 2017
... published novels, The Hit (1957), The Long Night (1958), and The Grand Parade (1961), as well as some of his essays, plays, and other unpublished work written in the 1960s and 1970s after his move from Harlem to Ghana, I describe an “alternative civil rights literature” not set in the South or primarily...
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Chester Himes and the Equality of Hurt
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (1): 117–140.
Published: 01 March 2012
... to the American hardboiled pulp tradi-
tion as well, and Himes’s Harlem Domestic novels specifically have been
criticized for reveling in comparable depictions of carnivalesque violence,
without any cathartic, empathetic identification with suffering, hurt bod-
ies. However, the moral presumption within...
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The Négritude Renaissance
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (1): 92–95.
Published: 01 March 2006
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idealists. For much of the early twentieth century, whether in pre-Negri-
tude Paris or in renaissance Harlem, black intellectuals took up multiple
banners of internationalism—sometimes to underscore homegrown
racism, sometimes to resist the dehumanizing effects of colonial oppres
sion...
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Cultural Exchange in a Black Atlantic Web: South African Literature, Langston Hughes, and Negritude
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (4): 481–512.
Published: 01 December 2014
... for the
generation of black South Africans who came of age in the mid-twentieth
century.1 The art and writing of the Harlem Renaissance was especially
important to the rise of a new generation of black South African writers.
The very first issue of the highly influentialDrum Magazine, for example,
began...
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The Gold Standard of Racial Identity in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and Passing
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (1): 22–41.
Published: 01 March 2006
... or character that preceded modernity.
The New Negro was as old as Africa but as contemporary as a jazz club
in urban Harlem; his racial soul was as ancient as Hughes’s “dusky rivers”
(Voices 155) yet as modern as the Garvey’s Black Star Line ships ready to
take the black diasporic masses back “home...
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Nella Larsen’s Quicksand , Recalcitrant Subjects, and Wrong Feeling
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 359–384.
Published: 01 December 2021
... information. Helga pulls away from her friends in Harlem, for instance, “without awareness on her part” (79). When Dr. Anderson comes to visit her, “she had no intention of running away, but something, some imp of contumacy, drove her from his presence, though she longed to stay” (82). Later, “her definite...
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Jazz Griots: Music as History in the 1960s African American Poem , by Jean-Philippe Marcoux
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 417–423.
Published: 01 September 2015
... 1960s poetry in De Mayor of Harlem (1970) especially significant. The Umbra poets, associated with Umbra magazine and the Umbra Workshop in the early 1960s, included such writers as Ishmael Reed, Tom Dent, Calvin C. Hernton, Askia Muhammad Touré, and Lorenzo Thomas. As Thomas (2008) , Nielsen...
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“A Slightly Different Sense of Time”: Palimpsestic Time in Invisible Man
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (3): 388–419.
Published: 01 September 2003
..., and elaborates on its
causes, in his essay “Harlem Is Nowhere.” Written as Ellison worked on
the manuscript for Invisible Man, “Harlem Is Nowhere” proposes that
American Negroes are caught in a vast process of change that
has swept them from slavery to the condition of industrial man...
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Regarding Others
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (2): 247–254.
Published: 01 June 2008
... that “the African American in
the Harlem Renaissance was so mobile and interactive with others in the
community that the personal vision of life became impersonal, objective,
and free of egotism” (84).This thesis stands in contradiction to the more
polyvalent idea that the Harlem Renaissance nurtured...
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“Sensible of Being Étrangers ”: Plots and Identity Papers in Banjo
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (3): 357–377.
Published: 01 September 2009
...’
before your name” (172). Though McKay admired modernist writers like
Joyce and Lawrence, who experimented with novelistic conventions, this
affinity went unmentioned by critics.7 The race of its author and subjects,
that is, limited the the way the novel was read. Like Home to Harlem before...
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Musical Literature: Bridging the Gap Between High and Low Art
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (3): 504–512.
Published: 01 September 2013
... Fitzgerald as a potential starting point for future
critics of musical literature.
Graham’s next chapter, “Make Them Black and Bid Them Sing: Musi-
cal Poetry, Racial Transformation, and the Harlem Renaissance,” offers a
reading of Jean Toomer’s Cane and Langston Hughes’s The Weary Blues and
Fine...
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After Revolutionary Alliance: Jazz and Langston Hughes’s Midcentury Internationalism
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (4): 367–398.
Published: 01 December 2024
... invasion of France, and, for him, Alabama and Africa, Stalingrad and Chicago, Harlem and Chungking are involved the same struggle for emancipation and independence. In this and other ways, we can see how Hughes’s embrace of the communist ideal in his radical period fuels an undying dream of freedom...
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Bad Seeds and Wayward Boys in Postwar Adoption Fiction
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (1): 75–99.
Published: 01 March 2021
... not confirm it in the same way the film does, making her willingness to take responsibility more curious. 15 In the essay “Psychiatry Comes to Harlem,” highlighting the newly established clinic, Wright (1946 : 51) observes that “one month’s intensive operation has proved that Harlem’s high rates...
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Remembrances of Left Pasts
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (3): 396–400.
Published: 01 September 2008
.... Rukeyser’s West Virginia, Bishop’s Key West,
Hughes’s Harlem, Brooks’s Chicago, McGrath’s North Dakota, and Op-
pen’s New York thus, in Lowney’s view, represent radically different poetic
perspectives on a shared experience of social crisis. Indeed, because of
the notable geographical span...
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Gertrude Stein, Success Manuals, and Failure Studies
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 191–212.
Published: 01 June 2017
... in the 1930s should serve as a warning to critics invested in failure as a figure of opposition. 19 Both Alan Trachtenburg (1968) and John Callahan (1972) comment on the mythic references to Grant in the novel. 20 Academic accounts of the Harlem Renaissance from the 1970s and 1980s, for instance...
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To “Flash White Light from Ebony”: The Problem of Modernism in Jean Toomer’s Cane
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2000
... aesthetic in writing
Cane, Toomer was seeking to “explore something that his racial ambivalence
demanded be explored” (20).
6 “Jean Toomer and the Afro-American Literary Tradition” and “Jean Toomer
and the Writers of the Harlem Renaissance.”
7 These schematic readings of Cane form...
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“Electrical Nutrition and Glandular Control”: Eugenics, Progressive Science, and George Schuyler’s Black No More
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 113–150.
Published: 01 June 2022
... the static representation of the body as an unforgiving and fixed inheritance on which the mainstream scientific discourse of American eugenics depended. The novel has two main plotlines: one follows the adventures of Harlem dandy Max Disher, and the other traces the scientific developments of Black...
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