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The New Negro Aesthetic // Selected Writings

Locke's Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer • Alain Locke • ISBN-13 978-0143135210

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The New Negro Aesthetic // Selected Writings

Locke's Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer • Alain Locke

ISBN-10: 014313521X · ISBN-13: 978-0143135210 · 2022

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Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer edits a collection of Alain Locke's influential essays on the importance of the Black artist and the Black imagination A Penguin Classic For months, the philosopher Alain Locke wrestled with the idea of the Negro as America's most vexing problem. He asked how shall Negroes think of themselves as he considered the new crop of poets, novelists, and short story writers who, in 1924, wrote about their experiences as Black people in America.

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Publisher: Alain Locke
Jan 18, 2022
Pages: 480

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Contributor: Locke's Pulitzer Prize-winning biographerMovement: Modernism

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Category: 1920sCategory: 1930sCategory: AnthologyCategory: ClassicsCategory: EssaysCategory: Harlem RenaissanceCategory: ModernismCategory: (penguin)

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