@article{434351,
      author = {Zafar, Rafia. and Hughes, Langston, and Schuyler, George  S. and Fisher, Rudolph, and Bontemps, Arna,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/434351},
      title = {Harlem Renaissance : four novels of the 1930s /},
      publisher = {Library of America,},
      abstract = {The defiant energy of the New Negro Arts Movement that  flourished between World War I and the Great  Depression---more famously known as the Harlem  Renaissance---was indelibly articulated by Langston Hughes:  "We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express  our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame.  If white people are pleased we are glad. If they are not,  it doesn't matter. ... We build our temples for tomorrow,  strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain,  free within ourselves." Hughes was just one of the  novelists who transformed American literature with  sometimes startling explorations of fresh subject  matter---including such controversial themes as "passing"  and color prejudice within the black community---and a  defiant insistence that African American writers must speak  for themselves. Now, for the first time, the greatest works  of the movement are assembled in a definitive two-volume  edition featuring authoritative texts and a chronology,  biographies, and notes reflecting the latest scholarship.  Together, the nine books in Harlem Renaissance Novels form  a vibrant and contentious collective portrait of African  American culture in a moment of tumultuous change and great  promise. "In some places the autumn of 1924 may have been  an unremarkable season," wrote Arna Bontemps, one of the  novelists in the collection. "In Harlem it was like a  foretaste of paradise."},
      recid = {434351},
      pages = {848 p. ;},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2011},
}