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Literature in the Harlem Renaissance

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             There were many great African American writers during the Harlem Renaissance but in my paper I will talk about a few that I felt made an important contribution in the 1920's. In the early 1920's there were three works that brought awareness the African American literature. First, in 1922 Claude McKay was the first black writer that published a volume of poetry "Harlem Shadows" by a mainstream national publisher. Second, in 1923 was by Jean Toomer who wrote a novel named "Cane" that had both poetry and prose that was about the life of black Americans in the rural South and urban North. Last, in 1924 a writer and editor named Jesse Fauset that wrote "There Is Confusion." His writing was from an African American women's viewpoint about the middle-class life. With these works as a foundation, three events between the years of 1924 and 1926 brought the Harlem Renaissance to attention.
             On March 21, 1924, Charles S. Johnson of the national Urban League made a dinner to get to know the new literary talent in the black community and to bring together the black writers with New York's white literary organizations. A result of this dinner a magazine named Survey Graphic that made a study to look into the social outlook and analysis in culture which made the Harlem issue in March 1925. Harlem issue featured work of black writers and was edited by a black philosopher and literary scholar. The second event was the publication of Nigger Heaven written in 1926 by a white novelist Carl Van Vechten that was about Harlem life. The book offended some members of the black community; however it helped a Negro statues bringing attention of many sophisticated New Yorkers black and white to Harlem exotic and exciting night life. It also attracted society towards African American literature.


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