Harlem Renaissance
This blog post is a part of http://harlemitetohipster.blogspot.com/ It was a cultural thing, in the way of the renaissance. You can say it was a cultural renaissance which was during the 1920s and the 1930s. It was commonly known as the New Negro Movement, it was named after that by Alain Locke. The cultural renaissance was located in Harlem, a neighborhood of New York City. Many people from all over the world like French speaking black writers an African and Caribbean colonies that lived in Paris during the renaissance. The renaissance became famous of a group of African American writers who produced a sizable body of literature in the four prominent genres, which are Poetry, fiction, drama and essay.
There are many discussions going on between historians about the time the Harlem Renaissance started and when it ended. They think the renaissance lasted from 1919 until somewhere in the middle of 1930. Although the renaissance ended many of the renaissance ideas lived on for a much longer time. Common themes in the New Negro Movement are : alienation, marginality, the use of folk material, the use of the blues tradition, the problems of writing for an elite audience.
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