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Article: The Harlem Renaissance: 1920-1940, vol. 4, The Critics and the Harlem Renaissance.
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 1998
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Cary D. Wintz, ed., Vol. 4. New York: Garland Publishing, 1996. 382 pp. $75.00.
Reviewed by
Angelyn Mitchell Georgetown University
Cary D. Wintz's seven-volume series, The Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940, is a wonderful addition to the critical study of the Harlem Renaissance. The primary purpose of the series, Wintz writes in his introduction, is to "focus on African American literature, the assessment and criticism of this literature, and the relation of this literature to the political and social issues confronting African Americans in the early twentieth century." Wintz characterizes the period as "a literary and intellectual movement" as well as ...