Children's literature of the Harlem Renaissance
By: Katharine Capshaw Smith.
Series: Blacks in the diaspora
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.; American literature -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism.; Children's literature, American -- History and criticism.; African American children -- Books and reading.; African American children in literature.; African Americans in literature.; Harlem Renaissance.; Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Description: "The New Negro Renaissance, the period associated with the flowering of the arts in Harlem, inaugurated a tradition of African American children's literature, for the movement's central writers made youth both their subject and audience, W.E.B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, Langston Hughes, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and other Harlem Renaissance figures took an impassioned interest in the literary models offered to children, believing that the "New Negro" would ultimately arise from black youth." "This book explores the period's vigorous exchange about the nature and identity of black childhood and uncovers the networks of African American philosophers, community activists, schoolteachers, and literary artists who worked together to transmit black history and culture to the next generation."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-325) and index.