Race und Gender am Beispiel der Harlem Renaissance

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Nella Larsen, Quicksand and Passing. New Brunswick: Rutger's UP, 1986.

Nathan I. Huggins, Harlem Renaissance. New York: OUP, 1971.

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Syllabus

Selected Bibliography

1. Nachschlagewerke

Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography. The Twenties, 1917-1929. Detroit, 1987

Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol 51: Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940. Detroit, 1987.

Kellner, Bruce, ed. The Harlem Renaissance. A Historical Dictionary for the Era. N.Y., 1984

Oxford Companion to African American Literature. New York: OUP, 1997

Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History (5 vols). New York, 1996

2. Monographien etc.:

Anderson, Jervis. This Was Harlem: A Cultural Portrait 1900-1950. New York, 1982

Andrews, William L., ed. Classic Fiction of the Harlem Renaissance. New York: OUP, 1994

Baker, Houston A. Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. Chicago: U of Ch. Pr, 1987

Berger, Maurice, Brain Willis et al, eds. Constructing Masculinity. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Bloom, Harold, ed. Langston Hughes. Modern Critical Views. New York, etc.: Chelsea House, 1986

Bontemps, Arna, ed. The Harlem Renaissance Remembered. N.Y.: Dodd, Mead, 1972

Boelhower, William. Through the Glass, Darkly. Ethnic Semiosis in American Literature. New York: OUP, 1987.

Bount, M. und G.P Cunnningham. Representing Black Men. New York, Routledge, 1996

Broer, Lawrence R., J.D. Walther, eds. Dancing Fools and the Weary Blues: The Great Escape of the Twenties. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State U Popular P, 1990;

Butler, Judith. "Passing, Queering: Nella Larsen's Psychoanalytic Challenge" in dies., Bodies That Matter. On the Discoursive Limits of "Sex". New York/London: Routledge, 1993.

Carby, Hazel V. Reconstructing Womanhood. The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist. New York: Oxford UP, 1987.

Carby, Hazel V. "'On the Threshold of Woman's Era': Lynching, Empire, and Sexuality in Black Feminist Theory." in Gates, Henry Louis (Hg), "Race", Writing and Difference. New York, etc: 1986, S. 301-316.

Chauncey, George. Gay New York. Gender, Urban Culture and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. New York: Basic Books, 1994.

Cooper, W.F.: Claude McKay. Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance. A Biography. New York: Schocken, 1987

Cooper, W.F., ed. The Passion of Claude McKay. New York, 1973

Corbin, Steven. No Easy Place to Be. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989.

Cruse, Harold. The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual. New York: W. Morrow, 1967.

Davis, Thadious. Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman's Life Unveiled. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1994

DeJongh, James. Vicious Modernism: Black Harlem and the Literary Imagination. Cambridge: UP, 1990.

Deutsch, Leonard J. "’The Streets of Harlem’: The Short Stories of Rudolph Fisher".Phylon, 40 (1979), 159-71.

Dorsey, Brian. Who Stole the Soul? Blaxploitation in the Harlem Renaissance. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Uni Salzburg, 1997

Douglas, Ann. Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan and the Nineteen-Twenties. New York, 1995.

DuBois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk (1903).

Dundes, Alan, ed. Mother Wit From the Laughing Barrel. Readings in the Interpretation of

Afro-American Folklore. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1973

Ensslen, Klaus. Einführung in die schwarzamerikanische Literatur. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1982.

Fisher, Rudolph. The Walls of Jericho. Ann Arbor: U Michigan Press, 1969

Floyd, Samuel A. ed. Black Music in the Harlem Renaissance: A Collection of Essays. N.Y.: Greenwood Press, 1990

Ford, Henry, and Parker Tyler. The Young and Evil (1933). New York: Sea Horse, 1988.

Garber, Eric. "Gladys Bentley: The Bulldagger Who Sang the Blues", Out/Look 1, No.2 (Spring 1988), 52-61.

Garber, Eric. "T'Aint Nobody's Bizness. Homosexuality in 1920's Harlem". Black Men/White Men. A Gay Anthology, ed. Michael J. Smith. San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1983.

Garcia, J.L.A. "Racism as Model for Understanding Sexism." Race Sex: Their Sameness, Difference and Interplay. Ed. Naomi Zack. New York, London: Routledge, 1997.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. "Race", Writing and Difference. Chicago, 1985

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. Speaking of Race, Speaking of Sex, New York, 1994.

Grandel, Hartmut. "Die literarische Endeckung Harlems: Rudolph Fisher und der afroamerikanische Roman der 20ger Jahre". Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 1991, Vol. 39, Heft 3.4, pp 238-249;

Greenberg, Cheryl Lynn, "Or Does It Explode?":Black Harlem in the Great Depression, New York und Oxford: OUP, 1991;

Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd. "'The Mind That Burns in Each Body'": Women, Rape, and Racial Violence". In: Snitow, Ann/Stansell, Christine/Thompson, Sharon (Hg.): Powers of Desire. The Politics of Sexuality. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1983, S.328-349.

Hosteler, Ann E. "The Aesthetics of Race and Gender in Nella Larsen's Quicksand". PMLA 105.1 (1990), 35-46

Huggins, Nathan I. The Harlem Renaissance. New York: Oxford UP, 1971.

Huggins, Nathan I., ed. Voices From the Harlem Renaissance. N.Y: OUP, 1970

Hull, Gloria T. Color, Sex, and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1987

Johnson, James Weldon. Black Manhattan. N.Y.: Knopf, 1930

Johnson, James Weldon, ed. The Book of American Negro Poetry. 1983

Kaplan, C. (1996). "A Cavern opened my Mind": The Poetics of Homosexuality and the Politics of Masculinity in James Baldwin. Representing Black Men. M. Bount and G. P. Cunningham. New York, Routledge: 27-54.

Kochmann, Thomas, ed. Rapping and Styling Out. Urbana: U of Illinois Press, 1972

Kramer, Victor A., ed. The Harlem Renaissance Re- Examined. Georgia State Literary Studies., 1987

Larsen, Nella. Quicksand and Passing. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1986

Lenz, Günter H. "Gettoerfahrung, Gettokultur, Gettoliteratur: Zur Afroamerikanischen Literatur zwischen den Weltkriegen (1914-1945)", Amerikanische Gettoliteratur: Zur Literatur ethnischer, marginaler und unterdrückter Gruppen in Amerika, Hg. Berndt Ostendorf, Darmstadt: Wiss. Buchgesellschaft, 1983, pp 149-233.

Lenz, Günter H. "Symbolic Space, Communal Rituals, and the Surreality of the Urban Ghetto: Harlem in Black Literature From the 1920s to the 1960s", Callaloo 11 (Spring, 1988), pp 309-345.

Levine, Lawrence W. Black Culture and Black Consciousness. Afro-American Folk Thought

from Slavery to Freedom. N. Y.: OUP, 1977.

Lewis, David L. When Harlem Was in Vogue. N. Y.: OUP, 1981.

Lewis, David L., ed. The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader. New York: Viking, 1994.

Locke, Alain. "Harlem: Dark Weather-Vane". Survey Graphic 15, Aug. 1936, 69-84.

Locke, Alain, ed. The New Negro. N. Y.: Atheneum, 1986.

McCluskey, John, ed. The City of Refuge. The Collected Short Stories of Rudolph Fisher. Columbia: U Missouri Press, 1987.

McDowell, Deborah E. The Changing Same: Black Women's Literature, Criticism and Theory. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1995.

McDowell, Deborah E., "'That nameless...shameful impulse': Sexuality in Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Passing" in Joe Weixlmann and H.A: Baker (Hgg), Black Feminist Criticism and Critical Theory: Studies in Black American Literature, Vol. 3. Greenwood, Fla.: Penkevill, 1988. (größtenteils identisch mit McDowells "Introduction" in Larsen, Nella: Quicksand and Passing. Edited by Deborah E. McDowell. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1986.)

McKay, Claude. Home to Harlem. Boston: Northeastern UP, 1987.

McKay, Claude, Harlem: Negro Metropolis. N.Y. (1940), repr.:N.Y.: Harcourt, 1968.

McKay, Nellie Y., ed. Zora Neale Hurston: A Collection of Critical Essays. Boston: Hall, 1993.

Niles, Blair. Strange Brother (1931). London: GMP, 1991.

North, Michael. The Dialect of Modernism. Race, Language, and 20th Century Literature.

New York: OUP, 1994.

Nugent, Richard Bruce. "Sahdji", The New Negro, ed. Alain Locke (1925). N.Y., 1986.

Nugent, Richard Bruce. "Smoke, Lilies and Jade", Fire!!, November 1926.

Osofsky, Gilbert. Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto. Negro New York 1890-1930. N.Y.: Harper and Row, 1966.

Ostendorf, Berndt. Black Literature in White America. Sussex u. New Jersey: Harvester, 1982.

Ostendorf, Berndt, ed. Gettoliteratur . Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1983.

Patterson, Orlando. "The Crisis of Gender Relations among African Americans." Race, Gender and Power in America. Ed. Anita Faye Hill and Emma Coleman Jordan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Schoener, Allan. Harlem on My Mind. Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900-1968. New York: Random House, 1968

Scruggs, Charles. "All Dressed Up but No Place to Go: The Black Writer and His Audience during the Harlem Renaissance" American Literature 47 (Jan 1977) 544-63.

Singh, Amrijt. The Novels of the Harlem Renaissance. Twelve Black Writers 1923-1933. University Park and London: Penn State UP, 1976.

Singh, Amrijt, et al., eds. The Harlem Renaissance: A Revaluation. N. Y.: Garland, 1989

Schwenk, Katrin. "Lynching and Rape: Border Cases in African American History and Fiction." The Black Columbiad. Defining Moments in African American Literature and Culture. Ed. Werner Sollors, Maria Dietrich. Cambridge, Ma: Harvard University Press, 1994, 312-324.

Stepto, Robert B.From Behind the Veil. A Study of Afro-American Narrative. Urbana: U Illinois Press, 1979.

Story, RD. "Patronage and the Harlem Renaissance - You Get What You Pay For". CLA Journal 1988, vol 32, n 3, 284-295.

Tate, Claudia. "Nella Larsen's Passing: A Problem of Interpretation", Black American Literature Forum 14:4 (1980): S. 142-46.

Thurman, Wallace. Infants of the Spring (1932). Boston: Northeastern, 1992.

Tillery, Tyrone. Claude McKay. A Black Poet's Struggle for Identity. Amherst: U Massachusetts Press, 1994

Toomer, Jean. Cane. New York: Norton, 1988.

Van Vechten, Carl. Nigger Heaven. New York, 1926.

Wall, Cheryl A. (Hg.). Changing Our Own Words. Essays on Criticism, Theory, and Writing by Black Women. New Brunswick/London:Rutgers UP, 1989.

Wall, Cheryl A. "Passing for What? Aspects of Identity in Nella Larsen's Novels", Black American Literature Forum, vol. 20, nos. 1-2 (1986) pp. 97-111.

Wall, Cheryl A. Women of the Harlem Renaissance. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1995.

Wallace, Michele. Black Macho and the Myth of Superwoman. London, New York: Verso, 1990.

Watson, Steven. The Harlem Renaissance. Hub of African-American Culture, 1920-1930. New York: Pantheon, 1995.

Willis, Susan. Specifying. Black Women Writing the American Experience. Madison: U Wisconsin Press, 1987.

Wintz, Cary D. Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance. Houston, Texas : Rice UP, 1988.

Woods, Gregory. "Gay Re-Readings of the Harlem Renaissance Poets", Journal of Homosexuality 26, no. 2/3, 1993, 127-142.

Zack, Naomi, ed. Race/Sex: Their Sameness, Difference, and Interplay. New York: Routledge, 1997.

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