... the most important cultural centers in America. Started by African-American intellectuals like Alain Locke, W.E.B. DuBois and James Weldon Johnson, accompanied by the writings of Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Zora Neale Hurston. With art by the James Van der Zee and Aaron Douglas, Harlem became the focal point for a vibrant new life of the mind and spirit of the "New Negro" in ... a Christian and an African, yet not belonging fully to either tradition. Quicksand (1928), by novelist Nella Larsen, offered a powerful psychological study of an African American woman's loss of identit...

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... talented African-American writers, actors, speakers and activists who worked so hard to gain respect for themselves and their culture. Two writers were on the front lines of this movement, Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison. Their novels, Invisible Man and Their Eyes Were Watching God, probed deeply into the life and culture of the African-American, something that was practically unheard of ... , and characterization. Both novels shared two similar themes: the pursuit of happiness and self-actualization. These themes had to be dealt with tenderly in an intolerant, white-culture society...

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• Grade Level: High School

... talented African-American writers, actors, speakers and activists who worked so hard to gain respect for themselves and their culture. Two writers were on the front lines of this movement, Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison. Their novels, Invisible Man and Their Eyes Were Watching God, probed deeply into the life and culture of the African-American, something that was practically unheard of ... , and characterization. Both novels shared two similar themes: the pursuit of happiness and self-actualization. These themes had to be dealt with tenderly in an intolerant, white-culture society...

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• Grade Level: High School

... . She is part of the cultural heritage Walker is trying to revive and inspire others to do also. Walker takes a particular fascination and has an extreme amount of respect for Zora Neale Hurston. Walker identifies with Hurston's knowledge of black heritage and the way she depicted a love story between a black couple who were not in constant fear of whites. Her tone when comparing ... Hurston's, Their Eyes Where Watching God and Richard Wright's Native Son, is one of some-what disappointment that other critics rank Wright's novel higher. Wright and Hurston grew up in similar environments ...

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... , Civil Rights activist, writer, and editor), Duke Ellington (Big Band Musician, composer, pianist), Bessie Smith (American blues singer and songwriter), Zora Neale Hurston (American short story writer, autobiographer, novelist, and folklorist), and of course Langston Hughes, along with many many more. Hughes, Hurston, and other writers founded a literary journal named Fire!. It was a journal that was devoted to the African Culture. The journal turned ... ...

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... use the poetry of the 20's and 30's as inspiration for their own work. Some of the ones who use the poetry of the Renaissance are Alice Walker, who uses Zora Neale Hurston's work. Cissy Houston looks at gospel lyric poetry to inspire her work. And not only does the poetry provide inspiration, but also gives us a look into the realistic harshness of ... ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School