Harlem Renaissance
Harlem renaissance was very
much a northern urban movement associated with a modernism. It reflecting g the
new confidence urban black yet even with
this confidence .There were still Dilemma confronted .In 1926 essay into a “
The Negro artist the racial mountain ” Langston Hughes critic those writers who
worked in what he considered white forms condemning this urge within the
question of how to maintain a black identity in writing was an important one for
thou like thought like thoughts, the poet’s uses musical expression and important vernacular
back and important positive statement racial identity the period 1940- 60 ,
After the Harlem Renaissance before the black art movement was a time of great consoling and during diversity of African writing several major writer amazed and addition to
books. Their were to novelist and essayist Richard writing, Ralph Allusion and
James Baldwin the dramatist Lorraine Handball whose “A raising in the sun”Was the first play by black
women?
As ever, social exacerbated were necessary expression of black’s anger and frustrated
seen in work such as writes “ Native son”(1940).
It was the black are
movement which sought a fusion between Atheists and social protects, as one of
its leader Imam Immure Baraka wrote in 1969.’ We want “POEMS THAT SKILL”. The
new black writing was strongly link to new form of military social protest by
blacks more extreme than those evident in the civil rights movement .It was
also expressive of new proud in blackness and a renewed interest in the African
origin s of black Americans as well as Baraka, key writers (prominent writer)
of the proud include the poets Atheridge Knight (1931-1805) Sonia Sanchez.
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