{"product_id":"9781598531015","title":"Harlem Renaissance: Four Novels of The 1930s","description":"\u003cp\u003eHARLEM RENAISSANCE: Four Novels of the 1930s traces the flowering of the Renaissance in diverse genres and forms. It opens with Langston Hughes's \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNot Without Laughter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (1931), an elegantly realized coming-of-age tale that follows a young man from his rural origins to the big city. Suffused with childhood memories, it is the poet's only novel. George S. Schuyler's \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBlack No More\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (1931), a satire founded on the science fiction premise of a wonder drug permitting blacks to change their race, skewers public figures white and black alike in a raucous, carnivalesque send-up of American racial attitudes. Considered the first detective story by an African American writer, Rudolph Fisher's \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Conjure-Man Dies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (1932) is a mystery that comically mixes and reverses stereotypes, placing a Harvard-educated African \"conjureman\" at the center of a phantasmagoric charade of deaths and disappearances. \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBlack Thunder\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (1936), Arna Bontemps's stirring fictional recreation of Gabriel Prosser's 1800 slave revolt, which, though unsuccessful, shook Jefferson's Virginia to its core, marks a turn from aestheticism toward political militancy in its exploration of African American history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47046900056304,"sku":"9781598531015","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781598531015_p0.jpg?v=1763812155","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781598531015","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}