... African Republic of Liberia where nearly 13,000 blacks were settled in their homeland (Collier, 1985). Literature of the Harlem Renaissance In the early 1920s, three works signaled the new creative African American energy in literature. Claude McKay's volume of poetry, Harlem Shadow (1922), Jean Toomer's experimental novel combination of poetry and prose, Cane (1923), and Jessie Fauset's novel about a middleclass ... community-shattered the notion of Harlem as the "Mecca- of the New Negro (Campbell, 1994). The Harlem Renaissance ended when most of those associated with it left Harlem or...

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