Harlem Renaissance
Published on Nov 22, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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History
After world war 1 there was a large migration towards northern territories by African Americans. Bringing all sorts of people to the streets of New York, and in particular, a neighborhood called Harlem. Black people of all sorts of professions started bringing tons of new and original stuff to the world, after being discriminated against and forced into American racism and culture for so many years
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History
The first all black show appeared on Broadway, it was called "shuffle along". The blues were huge at the time, but the jazz movement was just beginning, going hand in hand with African American lyric poets that we're thriving at the time.
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History
By the 1930's America had hit the Great Depression, and as a result, many African American writers and publications had been depleted of the funds necessary to exist.
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AUTHORS
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James Weldon Johnson was a poet, teacher, and lawyer. In 1931 he was appointed professor of creative literature at Fist University. Wrote poems about black pride, "Fifty Years" and "O Black & Unknown Bards" are a few examples of this type of poem. Johnson was known as an important leader of the first phase of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Claude McKay was born in Jamaica and began writing poems in a Jamaican dialect of English. In 1914 he moved to Harlem and published poems in periodicals. His poems showed influence of the English romantic poets. In 1922 he wrote "Harlem Shadows" which became a major figure of the Harlem Renaissance.
In 1925 Langston Hughes gave famous poet Vachel Lindsey a few of his poems while he was bussing the poets table at work. The next day there were articles in the newspaper about his poems. Hughes began writing poems in 8th grade and often used jazz rhythms to structure his poems. Some of his biggest influences were Walt Whitmen and Carl Sandburg who were free verse poets.
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Countee Cullen began writing traditional style poems in high school. He was influenced by English romantics as he wrote his first volume of poetry called "Color". This volume established his reputation although he couldn't make a living on just writing so he later became a teacher at the Harlem Public School.
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FAMOUS WORKS
Starting off fresh and Controversial, the novel "Nigger Heaven", written by Carl Van Vechten, became somewhat of a staple within Harlem communities, and was an instant best seller when it was published. The story follows two characters whose romance between each other is constantly being denied by racism, and describes the interactions between other characters within Harlem. This book somewhat made a divide within the black literacy community, while authors like Langston Hughes appreciated the work, many others thought of it as insulting due to its explicit depictions of sex, violence, and other generally immoral acts being commonplace within the black community, as well as the title itself.
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