Peter Powers
Biographic Data
| ID | 341812 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Powers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Powers |
| SIGNATURE | POWERS P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Singing Man Who Must be Reckoned With
The Harlem and Irish Renaissances
Charles Johnson's Spiritual Imagination
In this first book-length study of Charles Johnson's work, Jonathan Little offers an engaging account of the artistic growth of one of the most important contemporary African American writers. From his beginnings as a political cartoonist through his receipt of the National Book Award for Middle Passage, Johnson's imagination has become increasingly spiritual. Little draws upon a wide array of sources, including short stories, interviews, reviews…
The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White
Part 1 modernism, and national culture: pragmatism and Americanism the Americanization of race and culture cultural pluralism and national identity cultural nationalism and the lyrical Left. Part 2 transformation of literary institutions: The Crisis and the nation's conscience toward a new negro aesthetic reading these United States - The Nation and The New Republic the native arts of radicalism and/or V.F. Calverton, The Modern Quarterly and an …
The "Other" New York Jewish Intellectuals
Irving Howe. Saul Bellow. Lionel Trilling. These are names that immediately come to mind when one thinks of the New York Jewish intellectuals of the late thirties and forties. And yet the New York Jewish intellectual community was far larger and more diverse than is commonly thought. In The Other New York Jewish Intellectuals we find a group of thinkers who may not have had widespread celebrity status but who fostered a real sense of community wi…
The "Other" New York Jewish Intellectuals
Irving Howe. Saul Bellow. Lionel Trilling. These are names that immediately come to mind when one thinks of the New York Jewish intellectuals of the late thirties and forties. And yet the New York Jewish intellectual community was far larger and more diverse than is commonly thought. In The Other New York Jewish Intellectuals we find a group of thinkers who may not have had widespread celebrity status but who fostered a real sense of community wi…
The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White
Part 1 modernism, and national culture: pragmatism and Americanism the Americanization of race and culture cultural pluralism and national identity cultural nationalism and the lyrical Left. Part 2 transformation of literary institutions: The Crisis and the nation's conscience toward a new negro aesthetic reading these United States - The Nation and The New Republic the native arts of radicalism and/or V.F. Calverton, The Modern Quarterly and an …
Charles Johnson's Spiritual Imagination
In this first book-length study of Charles Johnson's work, Jonathan Little offers an engaging account of the artistic growth of one of the most important contemporary African American writers. From his beginnings as a political cartoonist through his receipt of the National Book Award for Middle Passage, Johnson's imagination has become increasingly spiritual. Little draws upon a wide array of sources, including short stories, interviews, reviews…
The Harlem and Irish Renaissances
The Singing Man Who Must be Reckoned With
Art (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Harlem Renaissance (2 works) · History (2 works) · Performance art (2 works) · Race, History, and American Society (2 works) · American and British Literature Analysis (1 work) · American Jewish Fiction Analysis (1 work)