... Thurman, who edited FIRE !!. But the magazine, like the Renaissance itself had difficulties binding together any kind of permanent association of a group of writers and poets. So important names like Jean Toomer, Claude McKay or Rudolph Fisher were missing in the list of editors. But there was one thing they all had in common, they were members of the " Civic Club N. Y. " and ... ...

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... (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 black woman, There Is Confusion (1924) were among the first books written by Blacks to ... ...

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