The African American literature brought a lot of attention to itself. ... It also attracted society towards African American literature. ... When African Americans read literature from black writers they compare themselves to it. ... Second, was that African American literature plays an important part in shaping American literature. Third, is that African American literature is put into the same category as "white" literature. ...

• Word Count: 2368
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It began in the early 1920's where African American literature, art, music, and dance began to flourish in Harlem, a neighboorhood in New York City. ... The Harlem Renaissance marked the first time that publishers and critics took African American literature seriously. ... The literature appealed to the African American middle class and to the white book buying public. ... The Harlem Renaissance changed forever the dynamics of African American literature in the United States. The writers that followed after the Harlem Renaissance found that publishers and the public were more open to Af...

• Word Count: 1369
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I will be doing an essay on African American theater history. ... Writers like Phillis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth, Fredrick Douglass, W.E.B Dubois, Gwendolyn Brook, Zoral Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, James Baldwin and many more writers have paved the way for the work's of African American literature. The term "African American Literature" is understood by most as Sub-Saharan (East and West) Africa. The primary source of language for this literature is European not Africa, which is also known as radical anomaly. African participants in colonial administrations in Afri...

• Word Count: 1283
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

However, such issues as the relationship between the Harlem Renaissance and mainstream American culture, especially the relationship between African-American literature and white American culture and how white people have influenced the Harlem Renaissance have not been explored into. Nevertheless, white critics, patrons and publishers in the era of the Harlem Renaissance were critical for the growth of African-American literature, and its new role in the whole American culture. Whites had an important role in supporting the Harlem Renaissance through financial support, how white intellectuals ...

• Word Count: 1512
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It was time for the African American people to express their culture. ... During that time many African Americans started showing their different talents. ... The African American way of life was changing. ... Harlem became one of the largest African American communities in the United States and also a center for the arts and literature. ... The ship visited thirty-two ports on the West African Coats. ...

• Word Count: 1984
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The literature he created became part of the Harlem Renaissance Movement. The term Harlem Renaissance refers to an artistic, cultural, and social growing of writing about race and the African American's place in American life during the early 1920s and 1930s. ... The literature appealed to the African American middle class and to the white book-buying public. Magazines as The Crisis, a monthly journal of the NAACP, and Opportunity, an official publication of the Urban League, employed Harlem Renaissance writers on their editorial staff; published poetry and short stories by black writer...

• Word Count: 1518
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This generation, known as the Harlem renaissance, was enlightened by folk sources such as black music and black literature. ... Harlem became the most well known African Americans city, as it represented a kind of Eden, a cultural capital where literature and art symbolized their way of life. Harlem was giving a hope of resurrection to all African Americans in the United States lay awakening the artistic and sociocultural of their community. ... The Blues was an African American music played for many years in the south and in way singers were expressing themselves. ... Each questions he asked ...

• Word Count: 1971
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

As alluded to earlier Langston Hughes was a voice for his people (African Americans). ... Langston Hughes was a man ahead of his time with views that saw beyond color barriers, and while his writings did appeal to interracial groups who were into "serious" modern literature he was still viewed as a Revolutionary and a voice for the African American. ... His writings united individuals of African ancestry and Africa over the globe to support pride in their ever changing black society. Hughes associated as unashamedly as African American during an era when being black was not the thin...

• Word Count: 1762
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Like any other aspiring author, success does not come easily and working toward it can be laborious, especially due to the scarce amount of existing African American women authors in the mid-1960s. ... She captured the rhythms of African American life and speech in her writing. ... She was then introduced to the world of literature in 1901 at the age of 10, when Northern school teachers allowed her to read and study with their books. ... College opened Hurston's eyes to the beauty of literature and made her want to pursue a career in writing. ... She appreciated the Haitian culture and la...

• Word Count: 1464
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

His writing portrayed the everyday practices of African Americans, and focused on the issues of racism and the failure of African Americans to realize the American Dream. ... Critics take note that Langston remained unvarying in his spotlight on the problems of racism and the failure of African Americans to recognize the American Dream. ... (Beverly White, "African American Literature: A Contrast Between North and South" par 29) Clarence's red hair plays an important role in the story. ... Langston Hughes was a writer who wanted the injustices suffered by African Americans to be noticed...

• Word Count: 1559
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

He is not alone; there are many Black intellectuals during this period crafting art, literature and poetry in ways to express their heritage. ... The staircase resembles a crumbling old staircase found in the run down tenement buildings African Americans are forced to live in during the period the poem is written. ... It also means if you fail to keep moving, all the progress made by the mother will be lost and a setback for all African Americans. ... The metaphor of the stairs not only evokes the image of a stressful climb of a Black woman's life but also can be applied to the courageous...

• Word Count: 1328
• Approx Pages: 5

It has always stood apart from all other forms of literature. ... He helped shape the Harlem Renaissance, an eruption of African-American cultural expression in that section of New York City in the 1920s. ... It further underlines and describes her play's themes, and it also emphasizes the heritage of black American literature, a heritage that portrays a very different conception of America than the literature of dominant white culture. ... Hughes poem may be distinguished from prose literature in terms of form by its smaller size, by its frequent use of simile, rhyme, and its dependenc...

• Word Count: 1645
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Langston Hughes Langston Hughes opened his first volume of poems with the expression of his- and every Negro's- "soul world": "I am a Negro: /Black as the night is black, /Black like the depths of my Africa" (Emanuel 17). ... In the twenties Hughes wrote within two main streams of literature. ... By fishing in all corners of what he called the "big sea" of literature Hughes was becoming by 1930 a recognized and commercially successful author....

• Word Count: 1325
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Life And Times Of Langston Hughes Langston Hughes was one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, which was the African American artistic movement in the 1920's that celebrated black life and culture. ... His literary works helped shape American literature and politics. ... Through his poetry, novels, plays, essays, and children's books, he promoted equality, condemned racism and injustice, and celebrated African American culture, humor, and spirituality. ... He was the grandson of James Mercer Langston, the first African American to be elected to pu...

• Word Count: 2112
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

During these years, he held odd jobs as an assistant cook, launderer, and a busboy, and traveled to Africa and Europe working as a seaman. ... In 1930 his first novel, Not Without Laughter, won the Harmon gold medal for literature. ...

• Word Count: 1896
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

During these years, he held odd jobs as an assistant cook, launderer, and a busboy, and traveled to Africa and Europe working as a seaman. ... In 1930 his first novel, Not Without Laughter, won the Harmon gold medal for literature. ...

• Word Count: 1930
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School