The Chicago Renaissance

The Chicago Renaissance Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
  • Richard Wright and the Chicago Renaissance
  • Richard Wright, Frank Marshall Davis and the Chicago Renaissance
• Criticism: Definitions And Growth
  • Harriet Monroe, Margaret Anderson, and the Spirit of the Chicago Renaissance
  • Willa Cather's Lost Chicago Sisters
  • ‘Mapping’ Richard Wright: A Response to Deborah Barnes' ‘I'd Rather be a Lampost in Chicago’: Richard Wright and the Chicago Renaissance of African American Literature
  • Political Radicalism and Artistic Innovation in the Works of Lorraine Hansberry
• Criticism: The Language Debate
  • Leon Forrest and the AACM: The Jazz Impulse and the Legacy of the Chicago Renaissance
  • Dialect is a Virus: Chicago's Literary Vernacular Amid Linguistic Purity Movements
  • ‘The Best Conversation the World Has to Offer’: Chicago’s Women Poets and Editors
• Criticism: Major Authors
  • Overshadowed by Richard Wright: Three Black Chicago Novelists
  • Richard Wright in Chicago: Three Novels that Represent a Black Spokesman's Quest for Self Identity
  • Margaret Walker: Folk Orature and Historical Prophecy
  • From Chicago Renaissance to Chicago Renaissance: The Poetry of Fenton Johnson
• Further Reading