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On The Themes Revealed In The Harlem Renaissance Black Woman Writer Fauset's Novels, The Historical Causes And Their Historical Values

Posted on:2009-02-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H E OuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360272972199Subject:World History
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The New Negro Culture Movement which occurred in Harlem, New York, U.S.Aat the beginning of the 20th century is called "The Harlem Renaissance". It is the most important cultural event in American Negro history. Black writers beneficially explores the images of blacks in their works. When mentioning the Harlem Renaissance, people are quite familiar with Du Bois, Hughes and McKay, as they have created a lot of excellent works. But when mentioning Jessie Redmon Fauset, people consider her, as Hughes did, to be "midwives of the so-called New Negro Literature", together with Alan Lock and Charles Johnson, because when working as literature editor of the magazine "The Crisis", Fauset published a lot of works by black young people, and cultivated a lot of black writers, such as McKay, Hughes, Larsen, Cullen and Toomer and so on. But through a thorough study, we get the concept that Having published four novels, Fauset was the most published novelist of the Harlem Renaissance. Her novels include "There Is Confusion" (1924), "Plum Bun" (1929), "The Chinaberry Tree"(1931) and "Comedy: American Style"(1933). In her novels, Fauset exposes the following themes: triple oppression suffered by black women, black people's dual ideology and the "mulatto problem" and black women's self-respect and self-enhancement. The themes she explored in her novels reappeared in later novels by other writers, such as "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Hurston, "Sula" and "Tar Baby" by Morrison, "The Black the Berry" by Wallace Thurman, "Passing" and "Quicksand" by Larsen and "The Wedding" by Dorothy West. So works by Jessie Fauset made history. Works by Fauset and other black writers influenced by her promoted the Negro Liberation Movement in America in the 1960s.
Keywords/Search Tags:Fauset's Novels, Themes, Historical Causes, Historical Value
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