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The Crisis Reader - (Harlem Renaissance) by Sondra Kathryn Wilson (Paperback)

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  • After its start in 1910, The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races magazine became the major outlet for works by African American writers and intellectuals.
  • About the Author: Sondra Kathryn Wilson is a senior researcher at Harvard's W. E. B. Du Bois Institute, and editor of several volumes of the work of James Weldon Johnson.
  • 464 Pages
  • Literary Collections, American
  • Series Name: Harlem Renaissance

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About the Book



A collection of fiction, poetry, and essays from "Crisis", the magazine that launched the literature of the Harlem Renaissance. Contributors include Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Jean Toomer, Arna Bontemps, E. Franklin Frazier, and Alain Locke.



Book Synopsis



After its start in 1910, The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races magazine became the major outlet for works by African American writers and intellectuals. In 1920, Langston Hughes's poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" was published in The Crisis and W. E. B. Du Bois, the magazine's editor, wrote about the coming "renaissance of American Negro literature," beginning what is now known as the Harlem Renaissance.

The Crisis Reader is a collection of poems, short stories, plays, and essays from this great literary period and includes, in addition to four previously unpublished poems by James Weldon Johnson, work by Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Jessie Fauset, Charles Chesnutt, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Alain Locke.



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"The world does not know that a people is great until that people produces great
literature and art." --James Weldon Johnson

"Until The Crisis Reader, no broad collection of writings from one of America's most influential journals of opinion existed. Sondra Kathryn Wilson has remedied this amazing lacuna with her excellent edition. It will be an indispensable source from the moment of issue."
--David Levering Lewis, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography W. E. B. Du Bois

"The Crisis Reader offers riches from the heyday of black America' s most significant journal. Here are all the now famous names and their now famous poems and articles, and others undeservedly unknown today. Any serious student of black literature and politics will want this volume, as will those many others who long for a look at yesterday, when black bards sang." --Julian Bond, chairman of the board, N.A.A.C.P.



About the Author



Sondra Kathryn Wilson is a senior researcher at Harvard's W. E. B. Du Bois Institute, and editor of several volumes of the work of James Weldon Johnson. She lives in New York City.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.56 Inches (H) x 6.06 Inches (W) x 1.14 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.27 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Series Title: Harlem Renaissance
Sub-Genre: American
Genre: Literary Collections
Number of Pages: 464
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Sondra Kathryn Wilson
Language: English
Street Date: January 26, 1999
TCIN: 89715310
UPC: 9780375752315
Item Number (DPCI): 247-17-6751
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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