By Harold, Ed Bloom
Harlem within the Nineteen Twenties and Nineteen Thirties used to be the epicenter of a rebirth in African-American literature with the poetry and prose of writers resembling Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Gwendolyn Brooks. This quantity examines the defining issues and types of African-American literature in this interval.
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