Select the Writers and Works:-

Compare and Contrast two literary works (from two different writers) from the course that share the same theme.

Examples includes:

• Race/Ethnicity;

• Creativity/The Creative Process;

• Symbolism/Irony;

• Gender Roles/Marriage.

Either compare two novels, a novel and a short story, two short stories, a short story and a poem, or two poems.

Choose two writers and one literary work from each writer. In a 1-page document, explain why you have chosen those writers/works and the themes that you will explore in project. Provide some historical insight into the writers and works.

List of Harlem Renaissance Writers

• Arthur Schomburg
Essay- "The Negro Digs Up His Past"

• Angelina Weld Grimke
Poems- "A Winter Twilight", "The Black Finger", "For the Candle Light", "When the Green Les Over the Earth", "Tenebris"

• Anne Spencer
Poem- "Before the Feast of Shushan", "Dunbar", "At the Carnival", "Lady, Lady", "Letter to My Sister", "The Wife-Woman"

• Jesse Redmon Fauset
Novel - Plum Bun: A novel without a Moral

• Alain Locke
Essay- "The New Negro"

• Georgia Douglas Johnson
Poems- "The Heart of a Woman", "Youth", "My Little Dreams", "Lost Illusions", "I Want to Die While you Love Me"

• Marcus Garvey
Essay- "Africa for the Africans"

• Claude McKay
Poems- "Harlem Shadows", "If We Must Die", "To the White Fiends", "Africa", "America", "My Mother", "Enslaved", "The White House", "Outcast", "St. Isaac's Church, Petrograd"
Novel- Home to Harlem
Short Story- "Harlem Runs Wild"

• Zora Neale Hurston
Short stories- "The Gilded Six-Bits", "How it Feels to Be Colored Me"
Essay- "Characteristics of Negro Expression"
Book- Mules and Men
Novel- Their Eyes Were Watching God, Dust Tracks on a Road

• Nella Larsen
Novels- Quicksand

• Jean Toomer
Novels- Cane

• George Samuel Schuyler
Essay- "The Negro-Art Hokum"

• Rudolph Fisher
Short story- "The City of Refuge", "The Caucasian Storms Harlem"

• Eric Walrond
Short story- "The Wharf Rats"

• Marita Bonner
Essay- "On Being Young- a Woman- and Colored"

• Sterling A. Brown
Poem- "Odyssey of Big Boy", "Long Gone", "Southern Road", " Strong Men", "Memphis Blue", "Slim Greer", "Ma Rainey" "Cabaret", "Sporting Beasley", "Sam Smiley"

• Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Poem- "Heritage", "To a Dark Girl" , " Sonnet-2", "Hatred"

• Wallace Thurman
Novel- Infants of the Spring

• Arna Bontemps
Poem- "Golgotha Is a Mountain", "A Black Man Talks of Reaping", "Nocturne at Bethesda", "Southern Mansion", "Miracles"
Short story- "A Summer Tragedy"