Harlem Renaissance: Unit 9 Review

Tambellini gave us all the answers in his hints

HR movement traits

cultural, social, artistic expression

Biggest Negative

too concerned with white approval

HR authors still use…

traditional romantic literature

“Tropics in NY”

Claude McKay

“Tropics in NY” tone

helpless, lonliness

“Tropics in NY” irony

situational irony

“from Native Son”

Richard Wright

“from Native Son” white blue symbolism

(nightgown, cat) symbolize racism

“Harlem”

Langston Hughes

“Harlem” mood

no good days to remember; grief, pain, frustration

“How is Feels to Be Colored Me”

Zora Neale Hurston

“How is Feels to Be Colored Me” controversial personality

her own strength determines success, not race

Zora Neal Hurston

folklorist, anthropologist

Claude McKay

came from NY

Langston Hughes

biggest name; Whitman inspired

Richard Wright

Native Son: the story with bigger (lady in suitcase)

Aaron Douglass art style

monochromatic, sillhouettes, geometric

Jacob Lawrence

bold colors, abstract forms