Jean Toomer's Cane was published in 1923, a miscellany composed of fifteen poems, seven stories, six prose vignettes and a play that all focus on Negro life during the 1920's. The book was focused on the primitive modern sense of what it meant to be an African-American during the Harlem Renaissance. ... What is now considered to be the Harlem Renaissance was termed the Negro Renaissance in its own time. ... Due to Cane's eclectic mixing of poetry and prose it was considered a New Negro text and is still considered a 'masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance'.3 Toomer d...

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One of the main highlights of the twentieth century is the Harlem Renaissance, which permitted blacks to flourish in the arts and literature. ... He describes America as being a violent and cruel woman who continually takes his life away. ... It is not unusual for McKay to compare life as sexual objects. ... He has endured through all the hardships in his life. ... She does not use her life experiences as a reason to become stronger and appreciate sexual beauty. ...

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African Americans continued losing their ways of life as soon as they were boarding onto the slave trade vessels and brought over to the United States. ... This adopted identity took on a new role as the Harlem Renaissance came and passed in the 1920's and 1930's. ... During the Harlem Renaissance the issue of race became a central issue as "the first movement in which public discussions about the representation of black people in fiction reach a crisis point" (Bernard 408). ...

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It was at this time that he came to know Countee Cullen, a faculty member of school who had been one of the writers of the Harlem Renaissance. ... The essay was mainly autobiographical and impressionistic while offering sharp and perceptive comments on a variety of subjects that were to overlap with the material treated in Baldwin's fiction: the novel of protect, ghetto life in Harlem, and black-white encounters in Europe. ... These ideas include "the fact that 'life is tragic'; the need to 'apprehend the nature of change, to be able and willing to change'; the impor...

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