Jessie Redmon Fauset was, for many decades, regarded mainly for her productive encouragement of other black writers—she is still renowned for being one of the “midwives” of the Harlem Renaissance. But for some years now, her four novels have been… Read More ›
America became a subject for literature after the Revolutionary War, when writers began the exploration of themes and motifs distinctly American. Continuing the Puritan belief in America as the New Eden, writers stressed the millennial nature of settlement and progress…. Read More ›
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