{"product_id":"library-of-america-harlem-renaissance-novels-collectionisbn-9781598531016","title":"Library of America Harlem Renaissance Novels Collection","description":"HARLEM RENAISSANCE: Four Novels of the 1930s traces the flowering of  the Renaissance in diverse genres and forms. It opens with Langston  Hughes's \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNot Without Laughter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (1931), an elegantly  realized coming-of-age tale that follows a young man from his rural  origins to the big city. Suffused with childhood memories, it is the  poet's only novel. George S. Schuyler's \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBlack No More\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (1931), a satire founded on the science fiction premise of a wonder  drug permitting blacks to change their race, skewers public figures  white and black alike in a raucous, carnivalesque send-up of American  racial attitudes. Considered the first detective story by an African  American writer, Rudolph Fisher's \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Conjure-Man Dies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (1932) is a mystery that comically mixes and reverses stereotypes,  placing a Harvard-educated African \"conjureman\" at the center of a  phantasmagoric charade of deaths and disappearances. \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBlack  Thunder\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (1936), Arna Bontemps's stirring fictional recreation  of Gabriel Prosser's 1800 slave revolt, which, though unsuccessful,  shook Jefferson's Virginia to its core, marks a turn from aestheticism  toward political militancy in its exploration of African American  history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLIBRARY OF AMERICA\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.\u003cb\u003eRAFIA ZAFAR\u003c\/b\u003e, editor, is a professor of English with joint  appointments in the African \u0026amp; African American Studies and American  Culture Studies programs at Washington University in St. Louis. She is  the author of \u003ci\u003eWe Wear the Mask: African Americans Write American  Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, 1760-1870 (1997) and the book-length study \"Fictions of  the Harlem Renaissance,\" which appears in the sixth volume of \u003ci\u003eThe  Cambridge History of American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (2002). She has also  edited \u003ci\u003eNew Essays on Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a  Slave Girl\u003c\/i\u003e (1996; with Deborah Garfield), and \u003ci\u003eGod Made Man, Man  Made the Slave: The Autobiography of George Teamoh\u003c\/i\u003e (1992; with F.  N. Boney and R. L. Hume).","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303079825637,"sku":"NP9781598531016","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781598531015_96046289-afcc-4e19-9d86-a0d04f59c955.jpg?v=1730752988","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/library-of-america-harlem-renaissance-novels-collectionisbn-9781598531016","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}