This paper aims at exploring critically the fiction of Nella Larsen and her situation within the complexity in Harlem Renaissance. First, Larsen's novels Quicksand(1928) and Passing(1929), created a piece of art o...This paper aims at exploring critically the fiction of Nella Larsen and her situation within the complexity in Harlem Renaissance. First, Larsen's novels Quicksand(1928) and Passing(1929), created a piece of art out of her personal experience and offered new directions for Afro-American new models for artists. Her exploration of the contradiction of Afro-American female victimization and sexuality, is perhaps the most significant contribution to the literary development in Harlem Renaissance.展开更多
Cane is a literary masterpiece of Jean Toomer, a prominent American poet and novelist in the 20th century and also an important figure in Harlem Renaissance. This is a creative work which combines poems with short sto...Cane is a literary masterpiece of Jean Toomer, a prominent American poet and novelist in the 20th century and also an important figure in Harlem Renaissance. This is a creative work which combines poems with short stories and drama and which hasbeen widely acknowledged as the first modernist literary work in African American literature. It has no fixed point of view, no complete plot but an organic mixture of the fragments of poems, short stories and drama. Toomer’s poems have special artistic featuressuch as the cubic presentation of images, strong emotion and ambiguity combined with multi-layer of reality. Meanwhile they function a lot in making the short stories more convincing, in displaying the ghetto pastoral mode, in putting forward the essence of Harlem Renaissance and so on. Poems function as the distillation for Cane. They are the finishing point of the whole work.展开更多
文摘This paper aims at exploring critically the fiction of Nella Larsen and her situation within the complexity in Harlem Renaissance. First, Larsen's novels Quicksand(1928) and Passing(1929), created a piece of art out of her personal experience and offered new directions for Afro-American new models for artists. Her exploration of the contradiction of Afro-American female victimization and sexuality, is perhaps the most significant contribution to the literary development in Harlem Renaissance.
文摘Cane is a literary masterpiece of Jean Toomer, a prominent American poet and novelist in the 20th century and also an important figure in Harlem Renaissance. This is a creative work which combines poems with short stories and drama and which hasbeen widely acknowledged as the first modernist literary work in African American literature. It has no fixed point of view, no complete plot but an organic mixture of the fragments of poems, short stories and drama. Toomer’s poems have special artistic featuressuch as the cubic presentation of images, strong emotion and ambiguity combined with multi-layer of reality. Meanwhile they function a lot in making the short stories more convincing, in displaying the ghetto pastoral mode, in putting forward the essence of Harlem Renaissance and so on. Poems function as the distillation for Cane. They are the finishing point of the whole work.
