... homeland, and the deep cultural cleft between Black and White America. The movement was instrumental in the founding of the 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 ... relatively little racial discrimination there. Quicksand (1928), by novelist Nella Larsen, offered a powerful psychological study of an African American woman's loss of identity, while Zora Neale Hursto...

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