Women of the Harlem renaissance /

Features chapters on Jessie Redmon Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston and Nella Larsen. Also discusses other artists including Josephine Baker, Gwendolyn Bennett, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Charlotte Mason, Bessie Smith, Anne Spencer, and Jean Toomer.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wall, Cheryl A.
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1995.
Series:Women of letters (Bloomington, Ind.)
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=586
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar.
  • Prologue: a note on the journey.
  • On being young, a woman, and colored: when Harlem was in vogue.
  • Jessie Redmon Fauset: traveling in place.
  • Nella Larsen: passing for what?
  • Zora Neale Hurston's traveling blues.
  • Epilogue: destinations deferred.
  • Selected bibliography of writings by women of the Harlem Renaissance.