Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance

Materials for Further Study

Materials for fUrther stUdy steven c. tracy Abramson, Doris E. Negro Playwrights in the American Theatre, 1925–1959. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969. An, Jee Hyun. “Chicago Renaissance.” In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005: 262–65. Baldwin, Davarian. Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Bolden, Barbara Jean. Urban Rage in Bronzeville: Social Commentary in the Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, 1945–1960. Chicago: Third World Press, 1999. Bone, Robert. “Richard Wright and the Chicago Renaissance.” Callaloo 28 (Summer 1968): 446–68. Brooks, Gwendolyn. Report from Part One. Detroit: Broadside Press, 1972. Butler, Robert J., ed. The Critical Response to Richard Wright. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995. Cappetti, Carla. “Sociology of an Existence: Richard Wright and the Chicago School.” MELUS (Summer 1985): 25–43. ———. Writing Chicago: Modernism, Ethnography, and the Novel. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. Cheney, Anne. Lorraine Hansberry. Boston: Twayne, 1984. Craig, E. Quita. Black Drama of the Federal Theatre Era: Beyond the Formal Horizons. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980. Davis, Frank Marshall. Livin’ the Blues: Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet, edited by John Edgar Tidwell. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992. Demlinger, Sandor and John Steiner. Destination Chicago Jazz. Chicago: Arcadia, 2003. Denning, Michael. The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century. London: Verso, 1998. Fabre, Michel. The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993. Fleming, Robert E. Willard Motley. Boston: Twayne, 1978. Fraden, Rena. Blueprints for a Black Federal Theatre 1935–1939. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 502 • steven c. tracy Graham, Maryemma. “Bearing Witness in Black Chicago: A View of Selected Fiction by Richard Wright, Frank London Brown, and Ronald Fair.” CLA Journal 33 (March 1990): 280–97. ———, ed. Fields Watered with Blood: Critical Essays on Margaret Walker. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001. Grossman, James. Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Grossman, James R., Ann Durking Keating, and Janice L. Reiff, eds. The Encyclopedia of Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Guzman, Richard R. Black Writing from Chicago: In the World, Not of It? Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2006. Harris, Michael W. The Rise of Gospel Blues: The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. Hricko, Mary. The Genesis of the Chicago Renaissance. New York: Routledge, 2009. Hughes, Langston. Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender. Ed. Christopher De Santis. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. Jones, Kirkland C. Renaissance Man from Louisiana: A Biography of Arna Wendell Bontemps . Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1992. Kenney, William Howland. Chicago Jazz: A Cultural History, 1904–1930. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Kent, George E. A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1990. Klinkowitz, Jerome, ed. The Diaries of Willard Motley. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1979. Knupfler, Anne Meis. The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women’s Activism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. Kramer, Dale. Chicago Renaissance: The Literary Life in the Midwest, 1900–1930. New York: Appleton-Century, 1966. Langston Hughes Review 14 (Spring–Fall 1996). Special Issue on Frank Marshall Davis. Mayer, Harold M. and Richard C. Wade. Chicago: Growth of a Metropolis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973. Miller, Wayne F. Chicago’s South Side, 1946–1948. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Mootry, Maria K. and Gary Smith. A Life Distilled: Gwendolyn Brooks, Her Poetry and Fiction. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. Morgan, Stacy I. Rethinking Social Realism: African American Art and Literature, 1930– 1953. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004. Mullen, Bill V. Popular Fronts: Chicago and African-American Cultural Politics, 1935– 1946. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. Pinkerton, Jan, and Randolph K. Hudson. Encyclopedia of the Chicago Literary Renaissance . New York: Facts on File, 2004. Rowe, Mike. Chicago Blues: The City and the Music. New York: Da Capo, 1981. Rowley, Hazel. Richard Wright: The Life and Times. New York: Henry Holt, 2001. Materials for fUrther stUdy • 503 Semmes, Clovis E. The Regal Theater and Black Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan , 2006. Sengstock, Jr., Charles A. Jazz Music in Chicago’s Early South-Side Theaters. Northbrook, Ill.: Canterbury Press, 2000. Smith, Carl S. Chicago and the American Literary Imagination, 1880–1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. Smethurst, James. The Black Arts...