January 22, 2012

ANTICIPATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH: FICTION FROM THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

Rafia Zafar, ed., Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s (New York: Library of America, 2011) (includes Jean Toomer, Cane; Claude McKay, Home to Harlem; Nella Larsen, Quicksand; Jessie Redmon Fauset, Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral; and Wallace Thurman, The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life).

Rafia Zafar, ed., Harlem Renaissance: Four Novels of the 19300s (New York: Library of America, 2011) (includes Langston Hughes, Not Without Laughter; George Schuyler, Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, A.D. 1933-1940; Rudolph Fisher, The Conjure-Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem; and Arna Bontemps, Black Thunder).