The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s
known as the "New Negro Movement"--- Alain Locke
the Harlem neighborhood of New York City تمركزت في حي هارم في نيويورك سيتي
"flowering of Negro literature", as James Weldon Johnson preferred to call the Harlem Renaissance
1.*Harlem Renaissance (HR) is the name given to the period from the end of World War I and through the middle of the 1930s Depression
2.*The notion of "twoness" , a divided awareness of one's identity, was introduced by W.E.B. Du Bois,
3.*Common themes: alienation, marginality, the use of folk material, the use of the blues tradition, the problems of writing for an elite audience.
4.*HR was more than just a literary movement: it included racial consciousness, "the back to Africa" movement led by Marcus Garvey
Fauset, Jessie Redmon:Plum Bun, The Chinaberry Tree; Comedy, American Style, 1933
Hughes, Langston: Not Without Laughter,
The Harlem Renaissance, also known as the New Negro Movement, was a literary,
All of this intent was expressed by the phrase "The New Negro," introduced by sociologist Alain LeRoy Locke in 1925
Poetry of the Renaissance also addressed themes of American identity and the American dream
The repetitive structure and recurring themes of blues music characterize the structure of many Renaissance poems
Authors Cary D. Wintz and Paul Finkelman further declare--
that Harlem Renaissance poetry from Chicago was characterized by the influence of an avant-garde style that arose in that city during the First World War