Children's literature of the Harlem Renaissance /
"The New Negro Renaissance, the period associated with the flowering of the arts in Harlem, inaugurated a tradition of African American children's literature, for the movement's central writers made youth both their subject and audience, W.E.B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, Langston Hug...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©2004.
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| Series: | Blacks in the diaspora.
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| Summary: | "The New Negro Renaissance, the period associated with the flowering of the arts in Harlem, inaugurated a tradition of African American children's literature, for the movement's central writers made youth both their subject and audience, W.E.B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, Langston Hughes, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and other Harlem Renaissance figures took an impassioned interest in the literary models offered to children, believing that the "New Negro" would ultimately arise from black youth." |
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| Physical Description: | xxvi, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-325) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0253344433 9780253344434 0253218888 9780253218889 |
