{"product_id":"9780253109101","title":"Temples for Tomorrow: Looking Back at the Harlem Renaissance","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Harlem Renaissance is rightly considered to be a moment of creative\u003cbr\u003e exuberance and unprecedented explosion. Today, there is a renewed interest in this\u003cbr\u003e movement, calling for a re-evaluation and a closer scrutiny of the era and of\u003cbr\u003e documents that have only recently become available. Temples for Tomorrow reconsiders\u003cbr\u003e the period -- between two world wars -- which confirmed the intuitions of W. E. B.\u003cbr\u003e DuBois on the \"color line\" and gave birth to the \"American dilemma,\" later evoked by\u003cbr\u003e Gunnar Myrdal. Issuing from a generation bearing new hopes and aspirations, a new\u003cbr\u003e vision takes form and develops around the concept of the New Negro, with a goal: to\u003cbr\u003e recreate an African American identity and claim its legitimate place in the heart of\u003cbr\u003e the nation. In reality, this movement organized into a remarkable institutional\u003cbr\u003e network, which was to remain the vision of an elite, but which gave birth to\u003cbr\u003e tensions and differences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection attempts to assess\u003cbr\u003e Harlem's role as a \"Black Mecca\", as \"site of intimate performance\" of African\u003cbr\u003e American life, and as focal point in the creation of a diasporic identity in\u003cbr\u003e dialogue with the Caribbean and French-speaking areas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEssays\u003cbr\u003e treat the complex interweaving of Primitivism and Modernism, of folk culture and\u003cbr\u003e elitist aspirations in different artistic media, with a view to defining the\u003cbr\u003e interaction between music, visual arts, and literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso\u003cbr\u003e included are known Renaissance intellectuals and writers. Even though they had\u003cbr\u003e different conceptions of the role of the African American artist in a racially\u003cbr\u003e segregated society, most participants in the New Negro movement shared a desire to\u003cbr\u003e express a new assertiveness in terms of literary creation and\u003cbr\u003e indentity-building.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47112507097328,"sku":"9780253109101","price":18.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780253109101_p0.jpg?v=1763681108","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780253109101","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}