Classics Circuit Harlem Renaissance Tour

Classics Circuit Harlem Renaissance Tour 02/03/2010

As we all know, February is Black History Month. I knew I'd want to do something special at BrownGirl BookSpeak to celebrate. Several months ago, I mapped out some glorious plans to host a challenge for this month with a Harlem Renaissance theme but decided to try my hand at hosting a year long challenge at the eleventh hour. As fate would have it, the Classics Circuit had also chosen the Harlem Renaissance as its February theme so I was more than happy to join. By the way, I love the concept of that blog in general.

The Harlem Renaissance is such an important period in literary history and history in general. The brilliance of the writing of the time, in my opinion, is the way it all showed that the Black experience was no longer monolithic or static. And neither was the writing itself. More attention to creativity through various writing styles became apparent while often still providing a social and political platform.

Be sure to follow the Classics Circuit Harlem Renaissance tour all this month. I'll be reading a few books from the period to celebrate Black History Month.

Tour Schedule
February 1, 2010   Shelf Love The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

February 2, 2010   Evening All Afternoon Cane by Jean Toomer

February 3, 2010   Daily Words and Acts Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

February 4, 2010   Paperback_Reader Passing and/or Quicksand by Nella Larsen

February 4, 2010   BookNAround The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories by Charles Chesnutt

February 5, 2010 A Striped Armchair The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man by James Weldon Johnson

February 5, 2010 Moored at Sea Overview: The relationship between the Harlem Renaissance and the Negritude movement of the French Colonies that grew from it.

February 6, 2010   Joyfully Retired His Eye is On the Sparrow by Ethel Waters (autobiography) and the life of Ethel Waters

February 7, 2010   Stephanie’s Confessions of a Book-a-Holic Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes or The Conjure Man Dies by Rudolph Fisher

February 8, 2010 Sparks’ Notes Plum Bun by Jessie Redmon Fauset

February 9, 2010 The Zen Leaf Jonah’s Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston

February 9, 2010 Breathing Space The New Negro edited by Alain Locke

February 10, 2010 Books and Chocolate Passing by Nella Larsen

February 11, 2010   Laura’s Reviews Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

February 11, 2010   Musings The Ways of White Folks: Stories by Langston Hughes

February 12, 2010   Bibliosue Home to Harlem by Claude McKay

February 13, 2010   things mean a lot Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston

February 14, 2010   eclectic / eccentric Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance by Bruce Nugent and an overview of African-American homosexuality during the Renaissance

February 15, 2010   Nonsuch Book Poetry of the Renaissance

February 16, 2010   Notes from the North The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

February 17, 2010   Becky’s Book Reviews Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston

February 17, 2010   Notorious Spinks Talks Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance by Bruce Nugent and the movie Brother to Brother

February 18, 2010   The Things We Read Passing by Nella Larsen

February 18, 2010   Rebecca Reads Black No More by George Schuyler

February 19, 2010   Reviews by Lola Passing by Nella Larsen

February 20, 2010 Gimme More Books! The Conjure-Man Dies by Rudolph Fisher

February 21, 2010   book-a-rama Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

February 22, 2010   1330v Ebony Rising: Short Fiction from the Harlem Renaissance

February 23, 20101 BrownGirl BookSpeak There Is Confusion by Jessie Fauset

February 24, 2010    Wuthering Expectations The Conjure Woman by Charles Chesnutt

February 25, 2010    Linus’s Blanket Stories by Zora Neale Hurston

February 25, 2010    Michelle’s Masterful Musings When Washington Was in Vogue by Edward Christopher Williams

February 26, 2010    My Friend Amy Quicksand by Nella Larson

February 27, 2010    Bookgazing Gentleman Jigger by Bruce Nugent

February 28, 2010    BookLust The House Behind the Cedars by Charles Chesnutt