{"id":181,"date":"2017-09-24T21:25:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T01:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/?p=181"},"modified":"2021-09-23T16:18:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T20:18:54","slug":"reading-list-whats-left-out-of-the-canon-but-worked-within-the-harlem-renaissance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/2017\/09\/24\/reading-list-whats-left-out-of-the-canon-but-worked-within-the-harlem-renaissance\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading List : What’s Left Out of the Canon but Worked Within the Harlem Renaissance"},"content":{"rendered":"

3-5 Secondary Sources<\/u>:<\/p>\n

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  1. Collins, Patricia Hill. Black Feminist Thought<\/em>. Taylor and Francis<\/em>, 2002.<\/li>\n
  2. Ezell, Margaret. Writing Women\u2019s Literary History<\/em>. Johns Hopkins UP<\/em>, 1993.<\/li>\n
  3. Gates, Henry Louis. \u201c\u2019What\u2019s Love Got to Do with It?\u2019: Critical Theory, Integrity, and the Black Idiom.\u201d New Literary History<\/em>, vol. 18, no. 2, 1987, pp. 345-62. JSTOR<\/em>, doi: 2307\/468733.<\/li>\n
  4. Hyot, Eric. \u201cOn Periodization.\u201d On Literary Worlds<\/em>.\u201d Oxford UP<\/em>, 2012.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Journal<\/u>:<\/p>\n

    Callaloo<\/p>\n

    Keywords<\/u>:<\/p>\n

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    1. Canon Formation<\/li>\n
    2. Category Definition v. Reality of Works<\/li>\n
    3. Harlem Renaissance<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      Explanatory Essay<\/u>:<\/p>\n

      For this assignment, I met with Professors Harris and Seiler because they have a lot of experience in the era I am fascinated by at this moment and would like to explore. I am interested in canon formation in general and the authors who do not fit the defined characteristics and subjects that have been accepted as that era\u2019s hallmarks. While this can be applied to any time in literary history, the Harlem Renaissance is uniquely interesting for a few reasons. I am interested not only in canon as formulated by elites of the general literary establishment, but also the elites within nontraditional literary movements. Women played a huge role in the Harlem Renaissance movement through working with periodicals, writing, and bringing other artists together to those gatherings a current audience knows were sources of amazing inspiration and the germ for works we study today. The Harlem Renaissance was recent enough to provide a decent record of these women\u2019s contributions, and I want to know how they were simultaneously accepted in the social scene and excluded from the list of names associated with this time\u2019s work. What were their interactions with their male peers, who sometimes served as colleagues at publications? How did so many women get defined by one scandal, such as Larsen\u2019s possible later-career plagiarism, as justification for not acknowledging their work\u2019s quality? What do authors like Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jessie Redmane Fauset\u2019s works say about other issues and themes than we see in black male narratives that traditionally make up the definition for that movement. I am starting here with some theory about canon formation from newer, black critics and more recursive ones. From there, I anticipate reading some of the movement\u2019s own authors\u2019 writing about the politics of the time along with their fictional work and its breadth of subject matter and emotional exploration. I want to explore the way other authors might change our understanding of the period and who was active within it. The formulation of the canon affects the writing of generations who study it, so what effect might a reformulation have on future writers reading and studying this period today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      3-5 Secondary Sources: Collins, Patricia Hill. Black Feminist Thought. Taylor and Francis, 2002. Ezell, Margaret. Writing Women\u2019s Literary History. Johns Hopkins UP, 1993. Gates, Henry Louis. \u201c\u2019What\u2019s Love Got to Do with It?\u2019: Critical Theory, Integrity, and the Black Idiom.\u201d New Literary History, vol. 18, no. 2, 1987, pp. 345-62. JSTOR, doi: 2307\/468733. Hyot, Eric. … Continue reading Reading List : What’s Left Out of the Canon but Worked Within the Harlem Renaissance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2965,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145910,145911,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-blog-posts","category-2017-reading-lists","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}