Complete Poems

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101177004
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Complete Poems by : James Weldon Johnson

Download or read book Complete Poems written by James Weldon Johnson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2000 marks the centenary of "Lift Every Voice and Sing," James Weldon Johnson's most famous lyric, which is now embraced as the Negro National Anthem. In celebration, this Penguin original collects all the poems from Johnson's published works—Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917), God's Trombones (1927), and Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day (1935)—along with a number of previously unpublished poems. Sondra Kathryn Wilson, the foremost authority on Johnson and his work, provides an introduction that sheds light on Johnson's many achievements and his pioneering contributions to recording and celebrating the African American experience. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
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Download or read book Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day written by James Weldon Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Saint Peter Relates an Incident

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
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Download or read book Saint Peter Relates an Incident written by James Weldon Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lift Every Voice and Sing

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780141183879
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (838 download)

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Download or read book Lift Every Voice and Sing written by James Weldon Johnson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-02-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of more than forty poems from a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance includes both uncompromising indictments of racial injustice and celebrations of the triumphs of African-Americans. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Black Poets of the United States

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252003417
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Book Synopsis Black Poets of the United States by : Jean Wagner

Download or read book Black Poets of the United States written by Jean Wagner and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the evolution of Afro-American poetry, highlighting individual poets up to the time of the Harlem Renaissance.

The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson

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Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0307796868
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson written by James Weldon Johnson and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A canonical collection, splendidly and sensitively edited by Rudolph Byrd.” –Henry Louis Gates, Jr. One of the leading voices of the Harlem Resaissance and a crucial literary figure of his time, James Weldon Johnson was also an editor, songwriter, founding member and leader of the NAACP, and the first African American to hold a diplomatic post as consul to Venezuela and Nicaragua. This comprehensive volume of Johnson’s works includes the seminal novel Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, poems from God’s Trombones, essays on cultural and political topics, selections from Johnson’s autobiography, Along This Way, and two previously unpublished short plays: Do You Believe in Ghosts? and The Engineer. Featuring a chronology, bibliography, and a Foreword by acclaimed author Charles Johnson, this Modern Library edition showcases the tremendous range of James Weldon Johnson’s writings and their considerable influence on American civic and cultural life. “This collection of poetry, fiction, criticism, autobiography, political writing and two unpublished plays by James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) spans 60 years of pure triumph over adversity. [….Johnson’s] nobility, his inspiration shine forth from these pages, setting moral and artistic standards.” —Los Angeles Times

The Crisis

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Total Pages : 28 pages
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Download or read book The Crisis written by and published by . This book was released on 1935-12 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crisis, founded by W.E.B. Du Bois as the official publication of the NAACP, is a journal of civil rights, history, politics, and culture and seeks to educate and challenge its readers about issues that continue to plague African Americans and other communities of color. For nearly 100 years, The Crisis has been the magazine of opinion and thought leaders, decision makers, peacemakers and justice seekers. It has chronicled, informed, educated, entertained and, in many instances, set the economic, political and social agenda for our nation and its multi-ethnic citizens.

On the Battlefield of Memory

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Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817317058
Total Pages : 342 pages
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Download or read book On the Battlefield of Memory written by Steven Trout and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a detailed study of how Americans in the 1920s and 1930s interpreted and remembered the First World War. Steven Trout asserts that from the beginning American memory of the war was fractured and unsettled, more a matter of competing sets of collective memories—each set with its own spokespeople— than a unified body of myth. The members of the American Legion remembered the war as a time of assimilation and national harmony. However, African Americans and radicalized whites recalled a very different war. And so did many of the nation’s writers, filmmakers, and painters. Trout studies a wide range of cultural products for their implications concerning the legacy of the war: John Dos Passos’s novels Three Soldiers and 1919, Willa Cather’s One of Ours, William March’s Company K, and Laurence Stallings’s Plumes; paintings by Harvey Dunn, Horace Pippin, and John Steuart Curry; portrayals of the war in The American Legion Weekly and The American Legion Monthly; war memorials and public monuments like the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier; and commemorative products such as the twelve-inch tall Spirit of the American Doughboy statue. Trout argues that American memory of World War I was not only confused and contradictory during the ‘20s and ‘30s, but confused and contradictory in ways that accommodated affirmative interpretations of modern warfare and military service. Somewhat in the face of conventional wisdom, Trout shows that World War I did not destroy the glamour of war for all, or even most, Americans and enhanced it for many.

African-American Poets

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Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438112718
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Book Synopsis African-American Poets by : Harold Bloom

Download or read book African-American Poets written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the principal African-American poets from colonial times through the Harlem Renaissance, paying tribute to a heritage that has long been overlooked. Works covered in this text include poems by Phillis Wheatley, widely recognized as

Cane

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Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598535730
Total Pages : 134 pages
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Book Synopsis Cane by : Jean Toomer

Download or read book Cane written by Jean Toomer and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Toomer’s revolutionary masterpiece Cane (1923) ushered in the era we now know as the Harlem Renaissance, and has come to be considered one of the classic works of American literary modernism. A boldly experimental “novel” mixing prose, poetry, and dramatic sketches, the book’s hallmark is its formal sophistication; sexuality, racism, and industrialization are among its major themes. Above all else it offers unforgettably evocative portraits of the African American lives Toomer encountered in rural Georgia, by turns down-to-earth, heartfelt, hauntingly lyrical.

Black No More: A Novel

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Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598535978
Total Pages : 154 pages
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Download or read book Black No More: A Novel written by George S. Schuyler and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s 1933, in a near-future Harlem on the verge of massive transformation: crowds are flocking to the new Black-No-More Sanitarium, brainchild of the mysterious Dr. Junius Crookman, eager to change the color of their skin and live free of the burdens of racism and prejudice. Black No More (1931), George S. Schuyler’s wildly inventive masterpiece, begins with a premise out of pulp-era speculative fiction. What would happen in America if race, by the “strange and wonderful workings of science,” were suddenly no longer a fixed or meaningful category? In the carnivalesque mayhem that ensues as millions undergo Crookman’s procedure and the old racial order is upended, Schuyler spares no one, mocking Klansmen and “race” men alike and reveling in the myriad absurdities of the nation’s racial obsession. By turns hilarious and (in an unforgettable lynching scene) utterly shocking, Black No More is Afrofuturist satire of the highest order––a sui generis Harlem Renaissance tour-de-force.

Quicksand

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Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598535749
Total Pages : 136 pages
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Download or read book Quicksand written by Nella Larsen and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Library of America presents one of the masterworks of the Harlem Renaissance, the tragic story of a young woman caught between worlds. Quicksand (1928) turns the techniques of literary naturalism on questions of race, gender, and class, with unforgettable results. Nella Larsen’s immensely stylish debut novel tells the story of sensitive, proud, and beautiful Helga Crane, the daughter (like Larsen herself) of a black West Indian father and a white Danish mother. She has what some would consider a promising career in the South, teaching at “the finest school for Negroes anywhere in the country,” and a respectable fiancé. But she refuses to settle for the loveless future she envisions, hemmed in by petty conformities and the realities of southern racism, black as well as white––and so she sets off in search a happier life, a journey recounted with great feeling and psychological precision in Quicksand. In Chicago, white in-laws disown Helga. Other relatives, in Copenhagen, fête her as a gorgeous exotic, and arrange a relationship with a famous Danish artist, but fail to see her as anything other than a marriageable commodity. Only in cosmopolitan New York, encountering what Larsen describes as “the continuously gorgeous panorama of Harlem,” does she begin to sense that she may have found a place where she might belong. But hers is a fate full of ambivalence, in which even the faith and family to which she turns are forms of entrapment.

The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life

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Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598535765
Total Pages : 147 pages
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Book Synopsis The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life by : Wallace Thurman

Download or read book The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life written by Wallace Thurman and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Library of America presents a classic novel of the Harlem Renaissance: Wallace Thurman's anguished, provocative look at prejudice and exclusion in Jazz Age Harlem. The Blacker the Berry (1929), Wallace Thurman’s debut novel, broke new ground as an exploration of issues of “colorism,” intra-racial prejudice, and internalized racism in African American life. Its protagonist, the young Emma Lou Morgan, is simply “too dark” for a world in which every kind of advancement seems to require a light complexion. Seeking acceptance and opportunity, she moves––much like the dark-skinned young Thurman had, four years before the novel’s publication––from Idaho to California to New York. Harlem, the “city of surprises,” is in many ways the novel’s true subject, its low-down, licentious streets, glittering cabarets, and variegated cast of characters offering a rich backdrop for Emma Lou’s ambivalent, picaresque progress.

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

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Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 966 pages
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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1959 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)

Aaron Douglas

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300135923
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Aaron Douglas written by Aaron Douglas and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131776322X
Total Pages : 867 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century by : Eric L. Haralson

Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century written by Eric L. Haralson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 867 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.

The Politics of Mourning

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674974069
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Book Synopsis The Politics of Mourning by : Micki McElya

Download or read book The Politics of Mourning written by Micki McElya and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arlington National Cemetery is America’s most sacred shrine, a destination for four million visitors who each year tour its grounds and honor those buried there. For many, Arlington’s symbolic importance places it beyond politics. Yet as Micki McElya shows, no site in the United States plays a more political role in shaping national identity.