The Works of Alain Locke [Hardcover]

With the publication ofThe New Negroin 1925, Alain Locke introduced readers all over the U.S. to the vibrant world of African American thought. As an author, editor, and patron, Locke rightly earned the appellation Godfather of the Harlem Renaissance. Yet, his intellectual contributions extend far beyond that single period of cultural history. Throughout his life he penned essays, on topics ranging from John Keats to Sigmund Freud, in addition to his trenchant social commentary on race and society.

The Works of Alain Lockeprovides the largest collection available of his brilliant essays, gathered from a career that spanned forty years. They cover an impressively broad field of subjects: philosophy, literature, the visual arts, music, the theory of value, race, politics, and multiculturalism. Alongside seminal works such as The New Negro the volume features essays like The Ethics of Culture, Apropos of Africa, and Pluralism and Intellectual Democracy. Together, these writings demonstrate Locke's standing as the leading African American thinker between W. E. B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King, Jr.

The foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the introduction by


Foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Introduction
Note on the Text and Acknowledgments

I. Literature

1. On Paul Laurence Dunbar (1905)
2. The Romantic Movement As Expressed by John Keats (1907)
3. Emile Verhaeren (1917)
4. Colonial Literature of France (1923)
5. The Younger Literary Movement (1923); co authored with Du Bois
6. Review of Countee Cullen'sColor(1926)
7. Review of Langston HughesThe Weary Blues(1926)
8. Review of Langston Hughes'Fine Clothes to the Jew(1927)
9. The Poetry of Negro Life (Preface toFour Negro Poets, 1926)
10. American Literary Tradition and the Negro (1926)
11. Review ofFIRE!!(1927)
12. Message of the Negro Poel¡