Research Catalog

Title

Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and beyond : Gwendolyn Bennett's selected writings / edited by Belinda Wheeler and Louis J. Parascandola.

Author

Bennett, Gwendolyn, 1902-1981

Publication

• ©2018
• University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wheeler, Belinda, 1974-
• Parascandola, Louis J., 1952-

Description

xx, 249 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Explores the role of writer Gwendolyn Bennett as an important contributor to the Harlem Renaissance. Includes Bennett's published and unpublished poetry, fiction, essays, diaries, letters, and artwork"--Provided by publisher.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Alternative Title

• Works.
• Gwendolyn Bennett's selected writings

Subjects

• Essays
• Personal correspondence
• Poetry
• Harlem Renaissance
• Fiction
• Bennett, Gwendolyn, 1902-1981 > Criticism and interpretation
• Black author
• Diaries
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Diaries.
• Essays.
• Fiction.
• Personal correspondence.
• Poetry.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-244) and index.

Contents

PUBLISHED WORK -- Poetry -- Introduction -- Nocturne (1923) -- Heritage (1923) -- To Usward (1924) -- Song (1925) -- Street Lamps in Early Spring (1926) -- Hatred (1926) -- Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas (1926) -- Moon Tonight (1926) -- Dear Things (1926) -- Advice (1927) -- Fantasy (1927) -- Quatrains (1927) -- Secret (1927) -- To a Dark Girl (1927) -- Epitaph (1934) -- Art -- Introduction -- Painting -- Untitled [River Landscape] (1931) -- Magazine Covers -- Pipes of Pan (March 1924) -- Untitled (January 1926) -- Untitled (July 1926) -- Short Stories -- Introduction -- Wedding Day (1926) -- Tokens (1927) -- Editorials -- Introduction -- Ebony Flute (August 1926) -- Ebony Flute (April 1927) -- Ebony Flute (July 1927) -- Ebony Flute (September 1927) -- Ebony Flute (April 1928) -- Reviews -- Introduction -- Heartbreak and North Carolina Sunshine: The Lonesome Road / Paul Green -- Blue-Black Symphony: Home to Harlem / Claude McKay -- Banjo / Claude McKay -- Plum-Bun / Jessie Redmon Fauset -- Emperors Jones (1930) -- Cultural and Social Articles -- Introduction -- Future of the Negro in Art (1924) -- American Negro Paints (1928) -- Plight of the Negro Is Tragic (1934) -- I Go to Camp (1934) -- Harlem Artists Guild (1937) -- UNPUBLISHED WORK -- Poetry -- Introduction -- Two Poems (1925) -- Thin Laughter (1928) -- Train Monotony (1928) -- Dirge for a Free Spirit (1933) -- Fulfillment (1935) -- [Give me your hand, beloved] (1935) -- I Build America (1938) -- Sweat (1938) -- Wise Guys (1938) -- Hungry Ones (1938) -- Threnody for Spain (1939) -- [Across a room when other ones are there] (n.d.) -- [Rapacious women who sit on steps at night] (n.d.) -- [So this is how it is] (n.d.) -- Unfinished Novel -- Introduction -- Chapter Outline for the Unfinished Novel The Call (n.d.) -- Excerpts from The Call (1928-1932) -- Essays -- Introduction -- My Father's Story (n.d.) -- [Ward Place] (1941) -- Lancaster, Pa. (n.d.) -- Let's Go: In Gay Paree! (n.d.) -- 25 (n.d.) -- [Life as a Javanese] (n.d.) -- [Ku Klux Klan Rides] (n.d.) -- Last Night I Nearly Killed My Husband! (n.d.) -- [Harlem Reflection] (n.d.) -- Diaries -- Introduction -- France -- June 26, 1925 -- July 26, 1925 -- August 2, [1925] -- August 8, [1925] -- September 27, [1925 -- September 28, 1925 -- April 29, 1926 -- United States -- [April 7, 1936 -- April 8, 1936 -- April 9, 1936 -- April 18, 1936 -- May 7, 1936 -- January 3, 1937 -- June 19, 1958 -- Correspondence -- Introduction -- Literary Friends -- To W. E. B. Du Bois (January 19, 1925) -- To Countee Cullen (August 28, 1925) -- To Langston Hughes (December 2, 1925) -- To Countee Cullen (January 14, 1926) -- To Harold Jackman (February 23, 1926) -- To Langston Hughes (1926) -- To Claude McKay (February 25, 1937) -- To James Weldon Johnson (January 4, 1938) -- To Alain Locke (May 11, 1939) -- To Richard Wright (March 3, 1940) -- To Alain Locke (November 30, 1941) -- To Langston Hughes (May 13, 1942) -- Family and Associates -- To Joshua Bennett and Marechal Ned Bennett (January 5, 1925) -- To Marechal Ned Bennett (March 24, 1925) -- To Joshua Bennett (May 17, 1925) -- To Marechal Ned Bennett (July 27, 1928) -- To James Vernon Herring (September 9, 1937) -- To Mayme (Abernathy) Pizarro (August 31, 1938) -- To Flora Dugan (October 6, 1947) -- To Everyone (September 27, 1968).

Call Number

Sc E 19-337

ISBN

• 9780271080963
• 0271080965
• 9780271080970
• 0271080973

LCCN

• 2018001477
• 40028300502

OCLC

1022980428

Author

Bennett, Gwendolyn, 1902-1981, author.

Title

Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and beyond : Gwendolyn Bennett's selected writings / edited by Belinda Wheeler and Louis J. Parascandola.

Copyright Date

©2018

Publisher

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-244) and index.

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Wheeler, Belinda, 1974- editor.

Parascandola, Louis J., 1952- editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40028300502

Research Call Number

Sc E 19-337