Table of Contents:
  • Primitivism as a therapeutic pursuit : notes toward a reassessment of Harlem Renaissance literature / Robert A. Coles, Diane Isaacs
  • White writers and the Harlem Renaissance / John Cooley
  • Carl Van Vechten's Black renaissance / Bruce Kellner
  • Philadelphia's literary circle and the Harlem Renaissance / Vincent Jubilee
  • Langston Hughes and approaches to modernism in the Harlem Renaissance / Arnold Rampersad
  • Sterling A. Brown : outsider in the Harlem Renaissance? / Robert B. Stepto
  • Langston Hughes and the blues he couldn't lose / Richard K. Barksdale
  • Sterling Brown, poet, his place in Afro-American literary history / Charles H. Nichols
  • Countee Cullen at "The heights" / James W. Tuttleton
  • Vindication as a thematic principle in Alain Locke's writings on the music of Black Americans / Paul Joseph Burgett
  • Controversial sounds / Kathy J. Ogren
  • Europa jazz in the 1920s and the musical discovery of Harlem / Barbara L. Tischler
  • Early recognitions : Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes in New York, 1920-1930 / Joseph McLaren
  • Jean Toomer and the writers of the Harlem Renaissance / Rudolph P. Byrd
  • Claude McKay's Marxism / Geta LeSeur
  • The aesthetics of community : the insular Black community ... in Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Mary Katherine Wainwright
  • Nella Larsen's Harlem aesthetic / Thadious M. Davis
  • The Star of Ethiopia : a contribution toward the development of Black drama and theater in the Harlem Renaissance / Freda L. Scott
  • Negritude and humanism : Senghor's vision of a universal civilization / Alfred J. Guillaume, Jr.
  • Léopold Sédar Senghor's Freedom I--Negritude and humanism (1964) / Wendell A. Jean-Pierre
  • The Harlem Renaissance : sources of information for research / Margaret Perry.