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Black American Poets and Dramatists of the Harlem Renaissance ("Sterling A. Brown" begins on p. 16) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 160 pgs.

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Harlem Renaissance Re-Examined ("Sterling A. Brown and the Afro-American Folk Tradition" begins on p. 333) » Read Now
by Victor A. Kramer, Robert A. Russ. 422 pgs.

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While the height of the Harlem Renaissance occurred more than seventy years ago, in many ways it still has an effect on our culture. "The Harlem Renaissance Re-examined" brings to light long-neglected writers and artists from that era for a second look at the roles that they played in developing...
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While the height of the Harlem Renaissance occurred more than seventy years ago, in many ways it still has an effect on our culture. "The Harlem Renaissance Re-examined" brings to light long-neglected writers and artists from that era for a second look at the roles that they played in developing the arts in America, and for a re-evaluation of thier talents.
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Sterling Brown and the 'Vestiges' of the Blues: The Role of Race in English Verse Structure, in MELUS » Read Now
by Michael Tomasek Manson. 20 pgs.

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...Sterling Brown and the vestiges of the blues: the role...6.) Baker makes a similar point: "Sterling Brown--in a gesture that implies self-conscious...Response in Cane."...
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Sterling Brown's Poetic Voice: A Living Legacy, in African American Review » Read Now
by Joanne V. Gabbin. 9 pgs.

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...Gabbin When I first heard Sterling Brown reciting "Long Gone," I knew that...forget the first time I heard Sterling Brown read "Old Lem." It was in the...Poems 180) I saw...
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The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946 (Chap. 2 "'The Strong Men Gittin' Stronger': Sterling Brown and the Representation and Re-creation of the Southern Folk Voice") » Read Now
by James Edward Smethurst. 288 pgs.

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The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946 surveys African American poetry between the onset of the Depression and the early days of the Cold War. The New Red Negro considers the relationship between the thematic and formal choices of African American poets and...
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The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946 surveys African American poetry between the onset of the Depression and the early days of the Cold War. The New Red Negro considers the relationship between the thematic and formal choices of African American poets and organized ideology from the "proletarian" early 1930s to the "neo-modernist" late 1940s. This study examines poetry by writers who are canonical, less well-known, and virtually unknown.
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The Negro Genius: A New Appraisal of the Achievement of the American Negro in Literature and the Fine Arts (Chap. IX "The New Realists The Forerunners: Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Eric Walrond, Rudolph Fisher, Sterling Brown, Zora Neale Hurston, Arna Bontemps") » Read Now
by Benjamin Brawley. 370 pgs.

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...Company for the quotations from Claude McKay and Sterling Brown; The Viking Press for those from James Weldon Johnson...Langston Hughes -- Eric Walrond -- Rudolph Fisher --...
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Sterling Brown: An Ethnographic Perspective, in African American Review » Read Now
by Beverly Lanier Skinner. 6 pgs.

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...Sterling Brown: an ethnographic perspective...poetic achievement. My thesis is that Sterling Brown was a postmodern ethnographer who by...Turner advocated the pursuit of...
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Authenticity and Elevation: Sterling Brown's Theory of the Blues, in African American Review » Read Now
by Lorenzo Thomas. 8 pgs.

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...the awesomely intellectual young Sterling Brown embracing a form devised by the...forget the first time I heard Sterling Brown read "Old Lem." It was in the...Poems 180) I...
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Jazz Poetry: From the 1920s to the Present (Chap. 4"From Obscurity to Fad: Jazz and Poetry in Performance") » Read Now
by Sascha Feinstein. 196 pgs.

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...122, no. 3181, 1926 and Sterling Brown poem "Odyssey of Big Boy" from...Copyright renewed 1960 by Sterling Brown. Included in The Collected...Etheridge Knight -- or Amiri...
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Neither Black nor White Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature (Chap. Eight "Excursus on the 'Tragic Mulatto,' or the Fate of a Stereotype") » Read Now
by Werner Sollors. 574 pgs.

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Why can a "white" woman give birth to a "black" baby, while a "black" woman can never give birth to a "white" baby in the United States? What makes racial "passing" so different from social mobility? Why are interracial and incestuous relations often confused or conflated in literature, making...
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Why can a "white" woman give birth to a "black" baby, while a "black" woman can never give birth to a "white" baby in the United States? What makes racial "passing" so different from social mobility? Why are interracial and incestuous relations often confused or conflated in literature, making "miscegenation" appear as if it were incest? When did the myth that one can tell a person's race by the moon on their fingernails originate? How did blackness get associated with "the curse of Ham" when the Biblical text makes no reference to skin colour at all? Werner Sollors examines these questions and others in Neither Black Nor White Yet Both, a new and exhaustively researched exploration of "interracial literature". In the past, interracial texts have been read more for a black-white contrast of "either-or" than for an interracial realm of "neither, nor, both, and in-between". Intermarriage prohibitions have been legislated throughout the modern period and were still in the law books in the 1980s. Stories of black-white sexual and family relations have thus run against powerful social taboos. Yet much interracial literature has been written, and this book suggests its pervasiveness and offers new comparative and historical contexts for understanding it. Looking at authors from Heliodorus, John Stedman, Buffon, Thomas Jefferson, Heinrich von Kleist, Victor Hugo, Aleksandr Sergeevic Puskin, and Hans Christian Andersen, to Lydia Marie Child, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Wells Brown, Mark Twain, Charles Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, Cirilo Villaverde, Aluisio Azevedo, and Pauline Hopkins, and on to modern writers such as Langston Hughes, Jessie Fauset, Boris Vian, and William Faulkner, Sollors ranges across time, space, and cultures, analysing scientific and legal works as well as poetry, fiction, and the visual arts, to explore the many themes and motifs interwoven throughout interracial literature. From the etymological origins of the term "race" to the cultural sources of the "Tragic Mulatto," Sollors examines the recurrent images and ideas in this literature of love, family, and other relations between blacks, whites, and those of "mixed race." Sollors's interdisciplinary explorations of literary themes yield many insights into the history and politics of "race," and illuminate a new understanding of the relations between cultures through the focus on interracial exchanges. Neither Black Nor White Yet Both is vital reading for anyone who seeks to understand what has been written and said about "race," and where interracial relations can go from here.
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Interracialism: Black-White Intermarriage in American History, Literature, and Law ("From 'Negro Character as Seen by White Authors'" begins on p. 274) » Read Now
by Werner Sollors. 546 pgs.

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Interracialism, or marriage between members of different races, has formed, torn apart, defined and divided our nation since its earliest history. This collection explores the primary texts of interracialism as a means of addressing core issues in our racial identity. Ranging from Hannah Arendt to...
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Interracialism, or marriage between members of different races, has formed, torn apart, defined and divided our nation since its earliest history. This collection explores the primary texts of interracialism as a means of addressing core issues in our racial identity. Ranging from Hannah Arendt to George Schuyler and from Pace v. Alabama to Loving v. Virginia, it provides extraordinary resources for faculty and students in English, American and Ethnic Studies as well as for general readers interested in race relations. By bringing together a selection of historically significant documents and of the best essays and scholarship on the subject of "miscegenation," interracialism demonstrates that notions of race can be fruitfully approached from the vantage point of the denial of interracialism that typically informs racial ideologies.
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African American Authors, 1745-1945: Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989)" begins on p. 57) » Read Now
by Emmanuel S. Nelson. 528 pgs.

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There has been a dramatic resurgence of interest in early African American writing. The works of dozens of 18th and early 20th century black writers have been recovered and reprinted; there has been a significant revival of interest in the Harlem Renaissance; and several major assessments of 18th...
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There has been a dramatic resurgence of interest in early African American writing. The works of dozens of 18th and early 20th century black writers have been recovered and reprinted; there has been a significant revival of interest in the Harlem Renaissance; and several major assessments of 18th and 19th century African American literature have recently been published. This reference book provides alphabetically arranged entries for 78 African American writers active between 1745 and 1945. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a summary of the critical response to the author, and primary and secondary bibliographies. A selected, general bibliography concludes the volume.
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