Title
Teaching the Harlem Renaissance through Hemingway: Divergences and Intersections of The New Negro and In Our Time
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Classroom approach teaching Alain Locke’s The New Negro (1925) alongside Hemingway’s In Our Time to demonstrate the ways in which black and white authors contributed to modernist literature. Pipes concentrates on how modernism was a consequence of both World War I and the race war in America, focusing on convergences and divergences between black and white portrayals of the modern human condition. Begins by contextualizing the racial unrest of 1920s America before moving into a deeper exploration of the expatriated experience of Harlem Renaissance authors and the relationship between the stories of In Our Time and the writings and artwork in Locke’s anthology.
Published in
Date
2018
Pages
85-97
Citation
Holcomb, Gary Edward, ed. Teaching Hemingway and Race. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2018.