Another event that is the outcome of the Jazz Ag is the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance was a time where many black artist and writers became popular. ... (Encarta) Another major part of the Jazz Age was the Harlem Renaissance. ... Quicksand (1928), by novelist Nella Larsen, offered a powerful psychological study of an African American woman's loss of identity, while Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) used folk life of the black rural south to create a brilliant study of race and gender in which a woman finds her true identity. ... "The influ...

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What was the Harlem Renaissance? ... Several factors laid the foundation for the Harlem Renaissance movement. ... Alain LeRoy Locke was considered the leader and chief interpreter of the Harlem Renaissance. ... Audience of the Harlem Renaissance Almost everything seemed possible in the early 1920s. ... The Harlem Renaissance appealed to a mixed audience. ...

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She is well known for her exceptional novel, "Their Eyes Were Watching God." ... " (New York Times; Her Eyes Were Watching Harlem). ... Alice Walker claimed that if Their Eyes are Watching God was never published, her award winning novel, The Color Purple, would have never been created. ... Two years later, she received a Guggenheim fellowship, which allowed her to produce what would become her most famous work: Their Eyes Were Watching God. ... Hurston spent a great deal of time in Jamaica conducting anthropological research after Their Eyes Were Watching God was complete (Biography.com;...

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