Chesnutt (1858- 1932) was an African-American ,essayist, political activist and lawyer, recognized for his novels and short stories revealing difficult issues of racial and social identity in the post-Civil War South. In 1887 published a short story entitled―The Goophered Grapevine‖. He also published a group of short stories entitled The Conjure Woman in 1899. This collection of short stories deals with ethnic issues, which Negroes are exposed to in the South, post-war.
Paul Laurence Dunbar was another prominent an American poet. He born in Dayton , ohio, June 27, 1872 to parents who were enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War. He was gifted by his childhood in writing stories and verse, at the age of sixteen, publication of his poems in a Dayton newspaper . Concentrated in his literary work, about social problems and the difficult aspects of Afro-American life. His first publication was in 1896, collection of poems entitled Oak and …show more content…
Many black writers and critics have appeared at that time, especially those who lived in Harlem. Artists began to be enthusiastic about producing a wide variety of original literary works dealing with African American life and culture. Moreover, this work has produced positive aspects that have greatly influenced on African society and black readers. The recorded underlying foundations of the Harlem Renaissance are perplexing. To a limited extent, they lay in the huge movement of African Americans to northern mechanical focuses that started ahead of schedule in the century and expanded quickly as World War I creation needs and work deficiencies helped openings for work. In 1910s, Harlem had turned into a lively group that gave coherence and support to an assorted populace pouring in from the South and the Caribbean. There are many famous writers in the age of Harlem Renaissance included the poets like James Weldon Johnson (1871 –1938), Marcus Garvey (1887 –1940) Claude McKay (1889 –1948), Alain LeRoy Locke (1885 –1954), Zora Neale Hurston (1891 –1960), Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882 –1961) , W. E. B. Du Bois (1868 –1963), Langston Hughes (1902 –1967), (Jean Toomer (1894 –1967), Louis Armstrong (1901 –1971) , Duke Ellington (1899 –1974), Josephine Baker (1906 –1975), Aaron Douglas (1899 –1979).
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