Rereading the Harlem renaissance
Subtitle: race, class, and gender in the fiction of Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dorothy West
By: Sharon L. Jones.
Series: Contributions in Afro-American and African studies,; no. 207
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: West, Dorothy, 1909- -- Criticism and interpretation; Fauset, Jessie Redmon -- Criticism and interpretation; Hurston, Zora Neale -- Criticism and interpretation; American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; African American women -- Intellectual life; African American women in literature; African Americans in literature; Social classes in literature; Sex role in literature; Race in literature; Harlem Renaissance
Description: "This rereading of the Harlem Renaissance gives special attention to Fauset, Hurston, and West. Jones argues that all three aesthetics influence each of their works, that they have been historically mislabeled, and that they share a drive to challenge racial, class, and gender oppression. The introduction provides a detailed historical overview of the Harlem Renaissance and the prevailing aesthetics of the period.

Individual chapters analyze the works of Hurston, West, and Fauset to demonstrate how the folk, bourgeois, and proletarian aesthetics figure into their writings. The volume concludes by discussing the writers in relation to contemporary African American women authors."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-156) and index.