Discover the brilliant, significant, and nearly forgotten short stories, essays, plays, and poems by the women who helped forge an African American renaissance of art and ideals.
As a writer, editor, mentor, and diplomat, Jessie Redmon Fauset was an essential, unwavering, and unsung force of the Harlem Renaissance. This volume honors Jessie Fauset’s exceptional and often overlooked talent as a writer.
“An examination of the entire corpus of Fauset’s work reveals that she was concerned with exploring modern African American experience—especially women’s experience—in a broad context that was global, modern, and cross-cultural.” —Claire Oberon Garcia
This is the first meticulous and comprehensive collection of Jessie Fauset's writing.
It includes all of Fauset's celebrated short stories, personal essays, and poems published in the NAACP magazine, The Crisis. Also included are the original story illustrations, a concise and accurate biography, biographical photos and documents, and an extensive bibliography.
Because the Harlem Renaissance wasn’t limited to Harlem...
Boston’s Quill Club published The Saturday Evening Quill annually from 1928 to 1930. The re-discovered issues contain stories, poems, and plays by some of the most talented, prolific, and distinguished African American writers of the era.
“Of the booklets issued by young Negro writers in New York, Philadelphia and elsewhere, this collection from Boston is by far the most interesting and the best.” —W.E.B. Du Bois
This anthology celebrates the women of The Saturday Evening Quill.
It includes Dorothy West’s early stories, and illustrations by Lois Mailou Jones
17 stories, 2 plays, 75 poems, and 2 illustrated poems for children by Dorothy West, Helene Johnson, Edythe Mae Gordon, Alvira Hazzard, Gertrude Schalk, Florida Ruffin Ridley, Alice E. Furlong, Florence Marion Harmon, Marion G. Conover, Gertrude Parthenia McBrown, Grace Vera Postles, and Lois Mailou Jones
Angelina Weld Grimke expressed her passion for love and justice in her short stories and numerous poems. Her anti-lynching play, Rachel, was the country's first African American production performed for an integrated audience. Grimke was the niece of the white abolitionist Grimke sisters, the daughter of a former slave, and a woman shamed into hiding her bi-sexuality. This anthology will contain thirty of Grimke's poems, four short stories, and Rachel: A Play in Three Acts.
The best according to the best. Fifty prize-winning short stories, poems, plays, and essays from The Crisis and Opportunity annual literary contests, 1925-1927. The judges were the literary giants of the Harlem Renaissance era, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Alain Locke, Eugene O'Neill, and Sinclair Lewis. Nearly half of the winners where women! This anthology will shine a new light on these remarkable writers.
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