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Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and beyond : Gwendolyn Bennett's selected writings / edited by Belinda Wheeler and Louis J. Parascandola

Author
Bennett, Gwendolyn, 1902-1981
Uniform Title
Works. Selections
Published
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Physical Description
xx, 249 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Additional Creators
Wheeler, Belinda, 1974- and Parascandola, Louis J., 1952-

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: PUBLISHED WORK -- Poetry -- Introduction -- Nocturne (1923) -- Heritage (1923) -- To Usward (1924) -- Song (1925) -- Street Lamps in Early Spring (1926) -- Hatred (1926) -- Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas (1926) -- Moon Tonight (1926) -- Dear Things (1926) -- Advice (1927) -- Fantasy (1927) -- Quatrains (1927) -- Secret (1927) -- To a Dark Girl (1927) -- Epitaph (1934) -- Art -- Introduction -- Painting -- Untitled [River Landscape] (1931) -- Magazine Covers -- Pipes of Pan (March 1924) -- Untitled (January 1926) -- Untitled (July 1926) -- Short Stories -- Introduction -- Wedding Day (1926) -- Tokens (1927) -- Editorials -- Introduction -- The Ebony Flute (August 1926) -- The Ebony Flute (April 1927) -- The Ebony Flute (July 1927) -- The Ebony Flute (September 1927) -- The Ebony Flute (April 1928) -- Reviews -- Introduction -- Heartbreak and North Carolina Sunshine: The Lonesome Road / Paul Green -- Blue-Black Symphony: Home to Harlem / Claude McKay -- Banjo / Claude McKay -- Plum-Bun / Jessie Redmon Fauset -- The Emperors Jones (1930) -- Cultural and Social Articles -- Introduction -- The Future of the Negro in Art (1924) -- The American Negro Paints (1928) -- The Plight of the Negro Is Tragic (1934) -- I Go to Camp (1934) -- The Harlem Artists Guild (1937) -- UNPUBLISHED WORK -- Poetry -- Introduction -- Two Poems (1925) -- Thin Laughter (1928) -- Train Monotony (1928) -- Dirge for a Free Spirit (1933) -- Fulfillment (1935) -- [Give me your hand, beloved] (1935) -- I Build America (1938) -- Sweat (1938) -- Wise Guys (1938) -- The Hungry Ones (1938) -- Threnody for Spain (1939) -- [Across a room when other ones are there] (n.d.) -- [Rapacious women who sit on steps at night] (n.d.) -- [So this is how it is] (n.d.) -- Unfinished Novel -- Introduction -- Chapter Outline for the Unfinished Novel The Call (n.d.) -- Excerpts from The Call (1928-1932) -- Essays -- Introduction -- My Father's Story (n.d.) -- [Ward Place] (1941) -- Lancaster, Pa. (n.d.) -- Let's Go: In Gay Paree! (n.d.) -- 25 (n.d.) -- [Life as a Javanese] (n.d.) -- [Ku Klux Klan Rides] (n.d.) -- Last Night I Nearly Killed My Husband! (n.d.) -- [Harlem Reflection] (n.d.) -- Diaries -- Introduction -- France -- June 26, 1925 -- July 26, 1925 -- August 2, [1925] -- August 8, [1925] -- September 27, [1925 -- September 28, 1925 -- April 29, 1926 -- United States -- [April 7, 1936 -- April 8, 1936 -- April 9, 1936 -- April 18, 1936 -- May 7, 1936 -- January 3, 1937 -- June 19, 1958 -- Correspondence -- Introduction -- Literary Friends -- To W. E. B. Du Bois (January 19, 1925) -- To Countee Cullen (August 28, 1925) -- To Langston Hughes (December 2, 1925) -- To Countee Cullen (January 14, 1926) -- To Harold Jackman (February 23, 1926) -- To Langston Hughes (1926) -- To Claude McKay (February 25, 1937) -- To James Weldon Johnson (January 4, 1938) -- To Alain Locke (May 11, 1939) -- To Richard Wright (March 3, 1940) -- To Alain Locke (November 30, 1941) -- To Langston Hughes (May 13, 1942) -- Family and Associates -- To Joshua Bennett and Marechal Ned Bennett (January 5, 1925) -- To Marechal Ned Bennett (March 24, 1925) -- To Joshua Bennett (May 17, 1925) -- To Marechal Ned Bennett (July 27, 1928) -- To James Vernon Herring (September 9, 1937) -- To Mayme (Abernathy) Pizarro (August 31, 1938) -- To Flora Dugan (October 6, 1947) -- To Everyone (September 27, 1968).
Summary
"Explores the role of writer Gwendolyn Bennett as an important contributor to the Harlem Renaissance. Includes Bennett's published and unpublished poetry, fiction, essays, diaries, letters, and artwork"--Provided by publisher.
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ISBN
9780271080963 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0271080965
9780271080970 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0271080973
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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