Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance
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Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance is a seminal critical study by Houston A. Baker Jr. that examines the intersections of modernist aesthetics and African American literary production during the Harlem Renaissance.
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| Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance canonical | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance Context triple: [Houston A. Baker Jr., notableWork, Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance]
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Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a flourishing African American cultural, artistic, and intellectual movement centered in Harlem, New York, during the 1920s and early 1930s.
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Modernism
Modernism is a broad 20th-century cultural and artistic movement characterized by a deliberate break with traditional forms and an embrace of innovation, abstraction, and new technologies in art, architecture, literature, and design.
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Jazz Age literature
Jazz Age literature encompasses the fiction, poetry, and drama of the 1920s that captured the era’s exuberance, moral ambiguity, and social change, often associated with writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.
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Native American Renaissance
The Native American Renaissance was a late 20th-century literary movement marked by a surge of works by Indigenous authors in the United States that foregrounded Native histories, cultures, and identities within contemporary American literature.
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E.
Chicago Black Renaissance
The Chicago Black Renaissance was a flourishing cultural and artistic movement in Chicago during the early to mid-20th century, marked by significant achievements in literature, music, visual arts, and intellectual life within the city’s African American community.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance Target entity description: Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance is a seminal critical study by Houston A. Baker Jr. that examines the intersections of modernist aesthetics and African American literary production during the Harlem Renaissance.
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A.
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a flourishing African American cultural, artistic, and intellectual movement centered in Harlem, New York, during the 1920s and early 1930s.
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B.
Modernism
Modernism is a broad 20th-century cultural and artistic movement characterized by a deliberate break with traditional forms and an embrace of innovation, abstraction, and new technologies in art, architecture, literature, and design.
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C.
Jazz Age literature
Jazz Age literature encompasses the fiction, poetry, and drama of the 1920s that captured the era’s exuberance, moral ambiguity, and social change, often associated with writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.
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D.
Native American Renaissance
The Native American Renaissance was a late 20th-century literary movement marked by a surge of works by Indigenous authors in the United States that foregrounded Native histories, cultures, and identities within contemporary American literature.
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E.
Chicago Black Renaissance
The Chicago Black Renaissance was a flourishing cultural and artistic movement in Chicago during the early to mid-20th century, marked by significant achievements in literature, music, visual arts, and intellectual life within the city’s African American community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book
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critical study ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
African American studies
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cultural studies ⓘ literary studies ⓘ |
| author | Houston A. Baker Jr. ⓘ |
| contributesTo |
debates about canon formation in American literature
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scholarship on the Harlem Renaissance ⓘ theory of African American modernism ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| examines |
African American modernism
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surface form:
Harlem Renaissance writers in relation to Euro-American modernism
aesthetics of the Harlem Renaissance ⓘ cultural politics of African American modernity ⓘ |
| focusesOn | intersections of modernist aesthetics and African American literary production ⓘ |
| genre |
African American literary criticism
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literary criticism ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | African American critical perspective on modernism ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
researchers of modernism
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scholars of literature ⓘ students of African American studies ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriodDiscussed |
Harlem Renaissance
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modernist period in American literature ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
African American literature
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Harlem Renaissance ⓘ literary modernism ⓘ modernism ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
African American modernism
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Harlem Renaissance ⓘ Houston A. Baker Jr. ⓘ modernist literature ⓘ |
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