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"Explores the role of writer Gwendolyn Bennett as an important contributor to the Harlem Renaissance. Includes Bennett's published and unpublished poetry, fiction, essays, diaries, letters, and artwork"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• PUBLISHED WORK
• Poetry
• Introduction
• Nocturne (1923)
• Heritage (1923)
• To Usward (1924)
• Song (1925)
• Street Lamps in Early Spring (1926)
• Hatred (1926)
• Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas (1926)
• Moon Tonight (1926)
• Dear Things (1926)
• Advice (1927)
• Fantasy (1927)
• Quatrains (1927)
• Secret (1927)
• To a Dark Girl (1927)
• Epitaph (1934)
• Art
• Introduction

• Painting
• Untitled [River Landscape] (1931)
• Magazine Covers
• Pipes of Pan (March 1924)
• Untitled (January 1926)
• Untitled (July 1926)
• Short Stories
• Introduction
• Wedding Day (1926)
• Tokens (1927)
• Editorials
• Introduction
• Ebony Flute (August 1926)
• Ebony Flute (April 1927)
• Ebony Flute (July 1927)
• Ebony Flute (September 1927)
• Ebony Flute (April 1928)
• Reviews
• Introduction
• Heartbreak and North Carolina Sunshine: The Lonesome Road / Paul Green
• Blue-Black Symphony: Home to Harlem / Claude McKay
• Banjo / Claude McKay
• Plum-Bun / Jessie Redmon Fauset
• Emperors Jones (1930)
• Cultural and Social Articles
• Introduction
• The Future of the Negro in Art (1924)
• The American Negro Paints (1928)
• The Plight of the Negro Is Tragic (1934)
• I Go to Camp (1934)
• The Harlem Artists Guild (1937)
• UNPUBLISHED WORK
• Poetry
• Introduction
• Two Poems (1925)
• Thin Laughter (1928)
• Train Monotony (1928)
• Dirge for a Free Spirit (1933)
• Fulfillment (1935)
• [Give me your hand, beloved] (1935)
• I Build America (1938)
• Sweat (1938)
• Wise Guys (1938)
• The Hungry Ones (1938)
• Threnody for Spain (1939)
• [Across a room when other ones are there] (n.d.)
• [Rapacious women who sit on steps at night] (n.d.)
• [So this is how it is] (n.d.)
• Unfinished Novel
• Introduction
• Chapter Outline for the Unfinished Novel The Call (n.d.)
• Excerpts from The Call (1928-1932)
• Essays
• Introduction
• My Father's Story (n.d.)
• [Ward Place] (1941)
• Lancaster, Pa. (n.d.)
• Let's Go: In Gay Paree! (n.d.)
• 25 (n.d.)
• [Life as a Javanese] (n.d.)
• [Ku Klux Klan Rides] (n.d.)
• Last Night I Nearly Killed My Husband! (n.d.)
• [Harlem Reflection] (n.d.)
• Diaries
• Introduction
• France
• June 26, 1925
• July 26, 1925
• August 2, [1925]
• August 8, [1925]
• September 27, [19]25
• September 28, 1925
• April 29, 1926
• United States
• [April 7,] 1936
• April 8, 1936
• April 9, 1936
• April 18, 1936
• May 7, 1936
• January 3, 1937
• June 19, 1958
• Correspondence
• Introduction
• Literary Friends
• To W. E. B. Du Bois (January 19, 1925)
• To Countee Cullen (August 28, 1925)
• To Langston Hughes (December 2, 1925)
• To Countee Cullen (January 14, 1926)
• To Harold Jackman (February 23, 1926)
• To Langston Hughes (1926)
• To Claude McKay (February 25, 1937)
• To James Weldon Johnson (January 4, 1938)
• To Alain Locke (May 11, 1939)
• To Richard Wright (March 3, 1940)
• To Alain Locke (November 30, 1941)
• To Langston Hughes (May 13, 1942)
• Family and Associates
• To Joshua Bennett and Marechal Neil Bennett (January 5, 1925)
• To Marechal Neil Bennett (March 24, 1925)
• To Joshua Bennett (May 17, 1925)
• To Marechal Neil Bennett (July 27, 1928)
• To James Vernon Herring (September 9, 1937)
• To Mayme (Abernathy) Pizarro (August 31, 1938)
• To Flora Dugan (October 6, 1947)
• To Everyone (September 27, 1968).

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Author/Creator:

Bennett, Gwendolyn, 1902-1981 , author

Contributors:

Wheeler, Belinda, 1974- , editor

Parascandola, Louis J., 1952- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Works [of Bennett, G.] (Selections)

Subjects:

Bennett, Gwendolyn, 1902-1981 — Criticism and interpretation

Harlem Renaissance

Bennett, Gwendolyn, 1902-1981

Criticism and interpretation

Genres:

Literary criticism

Poetry

Fiction

Essays

Diaries

Personal correspondence

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-244) and index.

Physical Description:

xx, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Physical Characteristics:

illustration

Call Numbers:

PS3503.E5474 A6 2018

ISBNs:

9780271080970 (paperback)
0271080973 (paperback)
9780271080963 (hardcover)
0271080965 (hardcover)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2018001477

OCLC Numbers:

1022980428