Rewriting Literary Blackness in Harlem: The Intertextuality of Hubert Harrison, George S. Schuyler, and Wallace Thurman [Hardcover]

For decades, scholars have placed the New Negro and Harlems Literati movements and their participants under the Harlem Renaissances umbrella with these monikers used interchangeably in scholarship to describe a seemingly singular literary and cultural moment in history. InRewriting Literary Blackness in Harlem: The Intertextuality of Hubert Harrison, George S. Schuyler, and Wallace Thurman, Tammie Jenkins argues that these are distinct movements that share intertextually related ideological views that occurred on a literary continuum. Harrisons, Schuylers, and Thurmans contributions have rarely been viewed and analyzed through an isolation of their respective movements. Using works published by Harrison, Schuyler, and Thurman during the early twentieth century, Jenkins investigates how their works redefinedblacknessat the intersections of race, gender, class, and geography. This book provides new insight into the intertextual relationships between the New Negro Movement, the Harlem Renaissance and Harlems Literati to scholars and academic libraries interested in cultivating and expanding understandings in African American Literature, African American History, Black Studies, and African American Studies.Tammie Jenkins, PhD, is an independent scholar of curriculum instruction.InRewriting Literary Blackness in Harlem, Tammie Jenkins provides us with a fascinating study and sweeping historical grounding of Harlems Black intellectual life during one of Americas most seminal periods (19201930s) for Black political thought, cultural expression, and activism. Through the double-barreled academic approach of intertextuality theory and narrative inquiry, complex organic intellectuals and towering literary and socially-engaged figures, such as Hubert Henry Harrison, George S. Schuyler, and Wallace Thurman, are refracted through the kaleidoscopic lens of Jenkins prodigious insight, where in her hands, the malleability of Blacknessl3¤