Arna Bontemps

The Chicago spirit is like no other when it comes to the arts, cultural conflicts, self-identity questions, and the search for truth and reasoning for the novels, poems, and short stories written by great authors and poets such as Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Arna Bontemps, Margaret Walker, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Richard Wright founded the South Side Writers Group, whose membership included Bontemps and Walker in 1936, in order to build a foundation of empowerment and inspiration to bright young writers and to experiment with new themes. In 1940 the publication Native Son escalated Wright into the limelight. It's a grimy truth of urban cities and the ghetto, social structure, and race creates a similar bond between the book, the classic Black Metropolis of St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton. Wright and Brooks somewhat lead the literature aspect of the Black Renaissance even though Hughes was a big impact, he had a bigger impact during the Harlem…

“A Summer Tragedy” authored by Arna BonTemps, was a short story about an older couple, Jeff and Jennie Patton, whose life was full of grief, many hardships and most of all despair, that ultimately led to the couple committing suicide. The setting of the story was during a time of economic depression and most Blacks were still working for white people. Jeff and Jennie were just an old black couple, with sicknesses and injuries, a lot of debt, and with a bunch of lost hope. With a distressingly…

Langston Hughes’ “Democracy” and Arna Bontemps’ “God Give to Men” are both written by African American poets. Each author represents pain, segregation, and racism. Hughes and Bontemps both had high education in their life, and they both went to college. Both of these poets related because they both dealt with the situation of Segregation, Civil Rights Act of 1957 & 1960, and Voting Rights Act. These two are inspiring poets who indeed inspire others of their kind to be themselves and become…

exercise any form of agency. This notion that slaves did not try to actively resist the confines of slavery is untrue and is illustrated by the work Kindred by Octavia Butler, Black Thunder by Arna Bontemps, and Django Unchained directed by Quentin Tarantino. These creative works of historical fiction do accurately represent how slaves were treated but also, perhaps more important how slaves resisted such unjust treatment. The three aforementioned pieces were all created at different period of…

“Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.” This quote by Napoleon Hill sums up what made Gabriel Prosser’s slave revolt successful in the aspects of making people believe in the idea of freedom and equality for people of all races. Gabriel’s revolt did have flaws, which led to its demise, from the unfortunate storm to traitors from within. In Black Thunder, a novel written by Arna Bontemps in 1936…

Harlem where they can freely express their talents. Many African Americans recognized during the Harlem Renaissance were Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston, as well as Arna Bontemps and etc. Arna Bontemps work had a big impact on the African American community, expressing their emotions from the beginning of slavery to their freedom. Among those who was recognized for their work was Arna Bontemps, Arna…

The poetry of the Harlem Renaissance highlights the struggles that came with being black in America during this time as well as the determination to cease those troubles. Often, these poems include an element of political consciousness and make a deliberate effort towards political awareness. The poetry of authors such as Arna Bontemps, Angelina Grimké, and Langston Hughes provide prime examples of this call to a social cognizance of Negro life in America during the time of the Harlem…

every kind of abuse imaginable? As a metaphor, this question can relate to the causes of African-American discrimination during the era of the Harlem Renaissance. Whether it was a result of fear, hatred, or the aftermath of a history of slavery, alienation between the dark-skinned and the rest of society was created and never forgotten. In “The Great Gatsby” by Scott Fitzgerald, the author conceives that alienation can be provoked by one’s memories of the past and their unwillingness to accept…

In the Harlem Renaissance African American had endured centuries of slavery and the struggle for abolition. Starting in about 1890, African Americans migrated to the North in great numbers. African American culture was reborn in the Harlem Renaissance. The migration eventually relocated hundreds and thousands of African Americans from rural South to the urban North. The Movement also included the new African-American cultural expressions across the urban areas in the Northeast and Midwest United…

Anyways for example did you know Langston Hughes and Claude McKay,Countee Cullen and Arna Bontemps, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jean Toomer, Walter White, and James Weldon Johnson.When people that played or made music like the people in the list when they danced there would be interacial couples there and all types of people. Many of the people that were a singer or something started to become a tad bit more famous and started to come out in magazines,newspapers,and maybe even T.V. The…