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Title: The Crisis Reader : Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the N.A.A.C.P.'s Crisis Magazine by Dr. Sondra Kathryn Wilson ISBN: 0-375-75231-5 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 26 January, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
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Summary: Best Guide for Studying the Harlem Renaissance
Comment: Editor Sondra K. Wilson's collection of stories, poetry, and essays culled from the archives of W.E.B. DuBois/NAACP's Crisis Magazine are among the best and most influential in shaping the direction of the Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz Age. The poetry includes some of the most outspoken and radical members: Sterling Brown, Countee Cullen, Arna Bontemps (a close friend of Langston Hughes), Hughes, Fauset, McKay... The list goes on. The fiction is one of my favorite collections and I reread it often for pleasure even though I originally bought the book to supplement the reading material for a college course on the Harlem Renaissance. Of particular interest are the stories of Marita O. Bonner, Jessie Fauset, and Rudolph Fisher's "High Yaller".
The most important aspect of the book, however, is the literary, cultural, and social essays. W.E.B. DuBois's firebomb essay "Criteria of Negro Art" is a highlight as is James Weldon Johnson's essay "Negro Authors and White Publihsers" which gets to the heart of the relationship between many of the white patrons from downtown Manhattan and their black artist counterparts.
This guide is as much a Who's Who of the Harlem Renaissance as it is a cornerstone to Black Studies. It is difficult to find back issues of Crisis in local libraries outside of New York or college libraries and even when looking through archives, it was difficult to separate the influential articles over the everyday. Sondra Wilson deserves high praise for this outstanding collection.
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Title: The Opportunity Reader : Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Urban League's Opportunity Magazine by Dr. Sondra Kathryn Wilson ISBN: 0375753796 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 29 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: The Messenger Reader : Stories, Poetry, and Essays from The Messenger Magazine by Dr. Sondra Kathryn Wilson ISBN: 037575539X Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 08 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader by David L. Lewis ISBN: 0140170367 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: A Renaissance in Harlem : Lost Essays of the WPA, by Ralph Ellison, Dorothy West, and Other Voices of a Generation by Lionel C. Bascom ISBN: 0380799022 Publisher: Amistad Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Nigger Heaven by Carl Van Vechten, Kathleen Pfeiffer ISBN: 0252068602 Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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