TY - BOOK AU - Thurman,Wallace AU - Singh,Amritjit AU - Scott,Daniel M. AU - Scott III,Daniel M. AU - Scott,Daniel M ,III AU - Scott III,Daniel M. TI - Collected Writings of Wallace Thurman: A Harlem Renaissance Reader SN - 9780813536439 AV - PS3539.H957 -- A6 2003eb U1 - 813/.52 PY - 2003/// CY - New Brunswick PB - Rutgers University Press KW - African Americans -- Literary collections KW - Harlem Renaissance KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Introduction: Wallace Thurman and the Harlem Renaissance -- PART ONE: Essays on Harlem -- Harlem: A Vivid Word Picture of the World's Greatest Negro City -- Harlem Facets -- Negro Life in New York's Harlem: A Lively Picture of a Popular and Interesting Section -- Harlem Directory: Where to Go and What to Do When in Harlem -- Harlemese -- Few Know Real Harlem, the City of Surprises: Quarter Million Negroes Form a Moving, Colorful Pageant of Life -- The Bump (A Dance They Do in Harlem) -- Harlem House Rent Parties -- Odd Jobs in Harlem -- PART TWO: Social Essays and Journalism -- A Note on the Text -- Christmas: Its Origin and Significance -- In the Name of Purity -- Quoth Brigham Young- This Is the Place -- Autobiographical Statement -- Description of a Male Tuberculosis Ward -- PART THREE: Correspondence -- Letters to Langston Hughes -- Letters to William Jourdan Rapp -- Letters to W.E.B. Du Bois, Claude McKay, Alain Locke, and Granville Hicks -- Letters to Harold Jackman -- Letters to Dorothy West -- PART FOUR: Literary Essays and Reviews -- Review of Black Harvest, by I.A.R. Wylie -- A Thrush at Eve with an Atavistic Wound: Review of Flight, by Walter White -- Editorial, The Messenger -- Review of Blues: An Anthology, edited by W. C. Handy -- Review of Heloise and Abelard, by George Moore -- Review of Teeftallow, by Thomas Sigismund Stribling -- Notes: Short Review of Flight, by Walter White -- A Stranger at the Gates: A Review of Nigger Heaven, by Carl Van Vechten -- Fire Burns: A Department of Comment -- Negro Artists and the Negro -- Nephews of Uncle Remus -- Negro Poets and Their Poetry -- Editorial Essay -- High, Low, Past, and Present: Review of The Walls of Jericho, Quicksand, and Adventures of an African Slaver; Langston Hughes Turns from Poetry to the Novel to Give a Sincere Picture of Negro Life in America -- Books to Read: Review of Southern Road, by Sterling Brown -- Review of Infants of the Spring, by Wallace Thurman -- PART FIVE: Aunt Hagar's Children -- Author's Preface -- Notes on a Stepchild -- This Negro Literary Renaissance -- Tribute -- Frederick Douglass: The Black Emancipator -- Booker T. Washington -- Marcus Garvey -- Draw Your Own Conclusions -- The Perpetual Bugaboo -- The Coming Revolution -- Terpsichore in Harlem -- PART SIX: Poems and Short Stories -- The Last Citadel -- Confession -- God's Edict -- Untitled -- Frustration -- On Meeting a Genius -- Stars -- Grist in the Mill -- Cordelia the Crude -- PART SEVEN: Plays -- Harlem: A Melodrama of Negro Life in Harlem -- Casting and Directing Harlem -- Detouring Harlem to Times Square -- Harlem as Educational Drama -- My Collaborator -- Two Playwrights Look at Harlem -- The Writing of Harlem: The Story of a Strange Collaboration -- Jeremiah the Magnificent -- PART EIGHT: Excerpts from the Novels -- The Blacker the Berry -- Infants of the Spring -- The Interne -- Bibliography -- Photo Credits -- Index of Names -- Index of Works UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3032115 ER -