Book contents
- A History of the Harlem Renaissance
- A History of the Harlem Renaissance
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Revising a Renaissance
- Part I Re-reading the New Negro
- Part II Experimenting with the New Negro
- Chapter 6 Gwendolyn Brooks: Riot after the New Negro Renaissance
- Chapter 7 Romans à Clef of the Harlem Renaissance
- Chapter 8 Modernist Biography and the Question of Manhood: Eslanda Goode Robeson’s Paul Robeson, Negro
- Chapter 9 Modernism and Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
- Chapter 10 Children’s Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
- Part III Re-mapping the New Negro
- Part IV Performing the New Negro
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 8 - Modernist Biography and the Question of Manhood: Eslanda Goode Robeson’s Paul Robeson, Negro
from Part II - Experimenting with the New Negro
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2021
Book contents
- A History of the Harlem Renaissance
- A History of the Harlem Renaissance
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Revising a Renaissance
- Part I Re-reading the New Negro
- Part II Experimenting with the New Negro
- Chapter 6 Gwendolyn Brooks: Riot after the New Negro Renaissance
- Chapter 7 Romans à Clef of the Harlem Renaissance
- Chapter 8 Modernist Biography and the Question of Manhood: Eslanda Goode Robeson’s Paul Robeson, Negro
- Chapter 9 Modernism and Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
- Chapter 10 Children’s Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
- Part III Re-mapping the New Negro
- Part IV Performing the New Negro
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Paul Robeson, Negro sits uneasily alongside recent reconsiderations of the Harlem Renaissance as a localized if significant instance of wider afromodernist currents in play in the early decades of the twentieth century, and has received little attention in scholarship.
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- A History of the Harlem Renaissance , pp. 144 - 158Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021