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"The New Negro: an Interpretation." Anthology Edited by Alain Locke (1925) (Focus on poetry and criticism)

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Part I: The Negro Renaissance
The New Negro    Alain Locke    3
Negro Art and America    Albert C. Barnes    19
The Negro in American Literature.    William Stanley Braithwaite    29
Negro Youth Speaks    Alain Locke    47

fiction:        
⁠The City of Refuge    Rudolph Fisher    57
⁠Vestiges    Rudolph Fisher    75
⁠Fog.    John Matheus    85
⁠Carma, from Cane    Jean Toomer.    96
⁠Fern, from Cane    Jean Toomer.    99
⁠Spunk    Zora Neale Hurston    105
⁠Sahdji.    Bruce Nugent    113
⁠The Palm Porch    Eric Walrond    115

poetry        
⁠Poems.    Countée Cullen    129
⁠Poems.    Claude McKay    133
⁠Poems.    Jean Toomer.    136
⁠The Creation    James Weldon Johnson    138
⁠Poems.    Langston Hughes.    141
⁠The Day-Breakers    Arna Bontemps    145
⁠Poems    Georgia Johnson.    146
⁠Lady, Lady    Anne Spencer    148
⁠The Black Finger .    Angelina Grimke    148
⁠Enchantment    Lewis Alexander.    149

 

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Contents of this path:

  1. Alain Locke, "The New Negro: Introduction" (1925)
  2. "The New Negro" (Essay by Alain Locke) (1925)
  3. William Stanley Braithwaite, "The Negro in American Literature" (1925)
  4. Poems by Countee Cullen in "The New Negro" (1925)
  5. Poems by Langston Hughes in "The New Negro" (1925)
  6. Poems by Claude McKay in "The New Negro" (1925)
  7. Poems by Jean Toomer in "The New Negro" (1925)
  8. Poems by Georgia Douglas Johnson in "The New Negro" (1925)
  9. "The Creation" by James Weldon Johnson
  10. "Lady, Lady" by Anne Spencer (in "The New Negro" [1925])
  11. "The Black Finger" by Angelina Grimke (in "The New Negro" [1925])
  12. "Enchantment" by Lewis Alexander (in "The New Negro" [1925])
  13. "The Day-Breakers" by Arna Bontemps (in "The New Negro" [1925])

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