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  • Modern Black Poets - New Negro Poets in the Twenties: McKay, Toomer, Hughes, Johnson p.18-33
  • Language and Literature in the African American Imagination - Afrocentric Aesthetics in Selected Harlem Renaissance Poetry p.133-146
  • The History of Southern Literature - Southern Standard Bearers in the New Negro Renaisance p.291-313
  • Black Is the Color of the Cosmos : Essays On Afro-American Literature and Culture, 1942-1981 - Origin of the movement p.167-227
  • Native Sons; A Critical Study of Twentieth-Century Negro American Authors - The First Forty Years p.21-46
  • Black Plots & Black Characters : A Handbook for Afro-American Literature - short summaries of Harlem Renaissance novles, See table of contents
  • The Heroic Ideal in American Literature - Chapter 3, The Negro Awakening
  • The Modern American Novel, 1914-1945 : A Critical History - p.75-94
  • Writers For the Nation : American Literary Modernism - Chapter 4
  • Images of the Negro in American Literature - Chapter 5, The Early Harlem Novel
  • Black American Literature : A Critical History - p.71-106
  • Language and Literature in the African American Imagination - Chapter 10, Afrocentric Aesthetics in Selected Harlem Renaissance Poetry
  • The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition - Chapter 4, The Harlem Renaissance and the Search for New Modes of Narrative
  • Down Home : Origins of the Afro-American Short Story - Chapter 5, The Harlem Renaissance: A Reappraisal
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Jean Toomer
  • Ride out the Wilderness : Geography and Identity in Afro-American Literature - p.31-44
  • Black Is the Color of the Cosmos: Essays of Afro-American Literature and Culture, 1942-1981 - Cane p.235-250
  • Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance - p.75-80
  • Black Poets of the United States; From Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes - Chapter 7
  • The Novels of the Harlem Renaissance: Twelve Black Writers 1923-1933 - p.64-70
  • Black Plots & Black Characters : A Handbook for Afro-American Literature - Bibliography of CLA Journal criticism p.364
  • Singers of Daybreak: Studies in Black American Literature - Cane p.53-80
  • Black Novelists and the Southern Literary Tradition - p.38-53
  • The Way of the New World: The Black Novel in America - Cane p.98-101
  • The Negro Novel in America - 80-89
  • Afro-American Poetics : Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesthetic - Chapter 1
  • Figures in Black : Words, Signs, and the "Racial" Self - Chapter 7
  • From DuBois to Van Vechten : The Early New Negro Literature, 1903-1926 - 125-144
  • Down Home : Origins of the Afro-American Short Story - Chapter 8
Claude McKay
  • Ride out the Wilderness : Geography and Identity in Afro-American Literature - p.41-55
  • Black American Literature : A Critical History - p.76-80
  • Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance - p.68-71
  • Black Poets of the United States; From Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes - Chapter 6
  • Black Plots & Black Characters : A Handbook for Afro-American Literature - Bibliography of journal criticism p.353
  • The Way of the New World: The Black Novel in America - p.130-135
  • The Negro Novel in America - p.67-75
  • From DuBois to Van Vechten : The Early New Negro Literature, 1903-1926 - p.74-82
  • Down Home : Origins of the Afro-American Short Story - p.159-170
Zora Neale Hurston
  • Ride out the Wilderness : Geography and Identity in Afro-American Literature - p.84-94
  • The Negro Novel in America - p.126-132
  • From DuBois to Van Vechten : The Early New Negro Literature, 1903-1926 - p.183-187
Nella Larsen
  • Black American Literature : A Critical History - p.92-96
  • The Novels of the Harlem Renaissance: Twelve Black Writers 1923-1933 - Passing and Quicksand p.98-104
  • The Way of the New World: The Black Novel in America - Quicksand and Passing p.108-115
  • The Modern American Novel, 1914-1945 : A Critical History - p.82-87
  • The Wayward Preacher in the Literature of African American Women - Quicksand p.9-42
Arna Bontemps
  • Black American Literature : A Critical History - p.100-103
  • The Novels of the Harlem Renaissance: Twelve Black Writers 1923-1933 - God Sends Sunday p.55-58
  • Biblical images in literature - p.228-234, Text and brief commentaries on Gethsemane, Nocturne at Bethesda, and Golgotha is a Mountain
  • Interviews with Black Writers - p.3-15
  • The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition - 101-105
  • Down Home : Origins of the Afro-American Short Story - Chapter 10
Countee Cullen
  • Modern Black Poets - p.69-83
  • Black Poets of the United States; From Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes - Chapter 8
  • The Negro Novel in America - 78-80
  • Afro-American Poetics : Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesthetic - Chapter 2, Cane
  • From DuBois to Van Vechten : The Early New Negro Literature, 1903-1926 - p.144-153
James Weldon Johnson
  • Black Poets of the United States; From Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes - Chapter 9
  • Singers of Daybreak: Studies in Black American Literature - The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man p.17-31
  • Black Novelists and the Southern Literary Tradition - p.26-37
  • The Negro Novel in America - p.45-49
  • From DuBois to Van Vechten : The Early New Negro Literature, 1903-1926 - p.66-73
Langston Hughes
  • Black Poets of the United States; From Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes - Chapter 10
  • The Negro Novel in America - p.75-77
  • Images of the Negro in American Literature - Chapter 10, The Harlem of Langston Hughes' Poetry
  • From DuBois to Van Vechten : The Early New Negro Literature, 1903-1926 - p.157-179
  • Down Home : Origins of the Afro-American Short Story - Chapter 9
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