Womanist propaganda, African-American great war experience, and cultural strategies of the Harlem Renaissance: plays by Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Mary P. Burrill
CM Tylee - Women's Studies International Forum, 1997 - Elsevier
Despite the continued prominence of First World War studies, and the current debate about
the importance of the Great War to the development of Modernism, there has been scant
recognition of Black literary responses to World War I. Yet it is acknowledged that the Great
War was crucial to the emergence of “the New Negro” and the Harlem Renaissance. This
article examines two Great War plays by African American women which foreground the
political issues raised by African American conscription to fight in France during World War I …
the importance of the Great War to the development of Modernism, there has been scant
recognition of Black literary responses to World War I. Yet it is acknowledged that the Great
War was crucial to the emergence of “the New Negro” and the Harlem Renaissance. This
article examines two Great War plays by African American women which foreground the
political issues raised by African American conscription to fight in France during World War I …