{"product_id":"9781598530995","title":"Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of The 1920s","description":"\u003cp\u003eHARLEM RENAISSANCE: Five Novels of the 1920s leads off with Jean Toomer's \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eCane\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (1923), a unique fusion of fiction, poetry, and drama rooted in Toomer's experiences as a teacher in Georgia. Toomer's masterpiece was followed within a few years by a cluster of novels exploring black experience and the dilemmas of black identity in a variety of modes and from different angles. Claude McKay's \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHome to Harlem\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (1928), whose freewheeling, impressionistic, bawdy kaleidoscope of Jazz Age nightlife made it a best seller, traces the picaresque adventures of Jake, a World War I veteran, within and beyond Harlem. Nella Larsen's \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuicksand\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (1928), the poignant, nuanced psychological portrait of a woman caught between the two worlds of her mixed Scandinavian and African American heritage; Jessie Redmon Fauset's \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlum Bun\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (1928), the richly detailed account of a young art student's struggles to advance her career in a society full of obstacles both overt and insidiously concealed; and Wallace Thurman's \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Blacker the Berry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (1929), with its anguished, provocative look at prejudice and exclusion as it tells of a new arrival in Harlem searching for love, each in its distinct way testifies to the enduring power of the Harlem ferment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of America, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050587373808,"sku":"9781598530995","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781598530995_p0.jpg?v=1763812153","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781598530995","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}