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Select the Writers and Works:-
Compare and Contrast two literary works (from two different writers) from the course that share the same theme.
Examples includes:
• Race/Ethnicity;
• Creativity/The Creative Process;
• Symbolism/Irony;
• Gender Roles/Marriage.
Either compare two novels, a novel and a short story, two short stories, a short story and a poem, or two poems.
Choose two writers and one literary work from each writer. In a 1-page document, explain why you have chosen those writers/works and the themes that you will explore in project. Provide some historical insight into the writers and works.
List of Harlem Renaissance Writers
• Arthur Schomburg
Essay- "The Negro Digs Up His Past"
• Angelina Weld Grimke
Poems- "A Winter Twilight", "The Black Finger", "For the Candle Light", "When the Green Les Over the Earth", "Tenebris"
• Anne Spencer
Poem- "Before the Feast of Shushan", "Dunbar", "At the Carnival", "Lady, Lady", "Letter to My Sister", "The Wife-Woman"
• Jesse Redmon Fauset
Novel - Plum Bun: A novel without a Moral
• Alain Locke
Essay- "The New Negro"
• Georgia Douglas Johnson
Poems- "The Heart of a Woman", "Youth", "My Little Dreams", "Lost Illusions", "I Want to Die While you Love Me"
• Marcus Garvey
Essay- "Africa for the Africans"
• Claude McKay
Poems- "Harlem Shadows", "If We Must Die", "To the White Fiends", "Africa", "America", "My Mother", "Enslaved", "The White House", "Outcast", "St. Isaac's Church, Petrograd"
Novel- Home to Harlem
Short Story- "Harlem Runs Wild"
• Zora Neale Hurston
Short stories- "The Gilded Six-Bits", "How it Feels to Be Colored Me"
Essay- "Characteristics of Negro Expression"
Book- Mules and Men
Novel- Their Eyes Were Watching God, Dust Tracks on a Road
• Nella Larsen
Novels- Quicksand
• Jean Toomer
Novels- Cane
• George Samuel Schuyler
Essay- "The Negro-Art Hokum"
• Rudolph Fisher
Short story- "The City of Refuge", "The Caucasian Storms Harlem"
• Eric Walrond
Short story- "The Wharf Rats"
• Marita Bonner
Essay- "On Being Young- a Woman- and Colored"
• Sterling A. Brown
Poem- "Odyssey of Big Boy", "Long Gone", "Southern Road", " Strong Men", "Memphis Blue", "Slim Greer", "Ma Rainey" "Cabaret", "Sporting Beasley", "Sam Smiley"
• Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Poem- "Heritage", "To a Dark Girl" , " Sonnet-2", "Hatred"
• Wallace Thurman
Novel- Infants of the Spring
• Arna Bontemps
Poem- "Golgotha Is a Mountain", "A Black Man Talks of Reaping", "Nocturne at Bethesda", "Southern Mansion", "Miracles"
Short story- "A Summer Tragedy"