HARLEM RENAISSANCE

Harlem Renaissance

Harlem Renaissance

Introduction

The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement and African American literature that flourished in the 1920s and early 1930s. It focused mainly on the African-American neighborhood of Harlem is located in northern Central Park in New York City.. This move marked the first time that major publishers and critics are seriously interested in African-American literature and African-American cultural achievements attracted significant attention from the American public in general. Although the Renaissance was primarily a literary movement, fertilized music, theater and African-American arts, sharing a simultaneous awakening and powerful. The Harlem Renaissance revolutionized the dynamics of literature and African-American arts in the United States. The writers of the 1930s and 1940s found that publishers and the public welcomed the African-American literature. For thousands of people of African descent in the world, the Harlem Renaissance was proof that their own voices could capture the imagination of a wider public.

Harlem Renaissance Langston Hughes:

One of the greatest poets of the Harlem Renaissance era was Langston Hughes. His birthplace was Joplin, Missouri in 1902, he was raised in places such as Lawrence before he moved to Cleveland to attend high school. He belonged to the black community with whom he did not really see eye to eye with, even though he descended from an affluent family but major disruption took place after his parents got separated after his birth (Lexington, 1990).

Moreover, he was primarily raised by his maternal grandmother and grandfather. Hughes mother was a typical black mother, who left her son in charge of her family, so she would go and look for jobs. At school he excelled in writing for school's magazine and organized many literary oriented affairs. His mother remarried to a wealthy black American who later supported Hughes and send him to Columbia for his degree (Lexington, 1990).

To keep himself occupied and avoid any rifts in school or university, by writing his thoughts out and converting them into poetry. His famous poem was written “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” on a trip to visit his father. At university he was allotted the worst dormitory due to his skin color and people ridiculed him. It was the first time he faced pain and sorrow from the bigotry remarks he got from his peers and that then incorporated his experiences into such poems as "The Weary Blues".

He did odd jobs to support his mother and kept himself from ...