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Literary Continuity of the Harlem Renaissance and the Chicago Renaissance
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할렘 르네상스와 시카고 르네상스의 문학적 연속성

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Young Cheol Lee (전주대학교)
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The Korean Society Of East-West Comparative Literature The Journal of East-West Comparative Literature Vol.29 KCI Accredited Journals
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2013.12
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265 - 290 (26page)

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Literary Continuity of the Harlem Renaissance and the Chicago Renaissance
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This essay aims to study the literary continuity of the Harlem Renaissance and Chicago Renaissance. In “Blueprint for Negro Writing,” a special issue of New Challenge magazine, Richard Wright declares the beginnings of a new black literary movement called the Chicago Renaissance In the essay, Wright insists that the Chicago Renaissance writers challenge black writers to fuse Marxist principles with black vernacular expression, but warns against creating a ‘simple literary realism’ that depicts black life as ‘devoid of wider social connotations or the revolutionary significance of black nationalist tendencies.’ His declaration means that the Chicago Renaissance writers should put their focus on the black masses more radically than their elder did. However, it does not say that the Chicago Renaissance writers should reject a legacy of the Harlem Renaissance. The Chicago Renaissance shares the important features of the Harlem Renaissance. Both renaissance writers emphasize heavily the racial themes, and elaborate upon the popular elements of the black folk. In Native Son, Wright’s critical perspective on whites’ racial oppression is the same as McKay’s and Hughes’s critical perspectives in Banzo, “Poor Little Black Boy” and “Slave on the Block.” And Chicago is also not the earliest nexus of Marxist literary influence. African American Marxist tradition originates in the Harlem Renaissance. Wright does not recognize the cultural and political activism of Harlem Renaissance writers such as McKay and Hughes. The Harlem Renaissance elders begin to cultivate an African Marxist cosmopolitanism that merges black aesthetic and cultural traditions with the Marxist perspective of proletarian art. Considering these facts, Wright’s declaration reflects African Americans’ reality of segregated life, poverty, and racism aggravated by the Great Depression of the 1930s, rather than the Harlem Renaissance writers’ aesthetic and cultural traditions.

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