Презентация, доклад по английскому языку по теме Harlem Renaissance для 9-11 классов

1920s and early 1930s;
Place: the Harlem neighborhood of New York City;
It concerns: African American literature, music, theatre, art, and politics.
Factors: great migration of African Americans to northern cities; the defence of racial equality in the African American community.

in Africa and the American South;
a strong sense of racial pride and desire for social and political equality;
the diversity of its expression;
introduction of the rhythms of African American music into poems;
the use of the sonnet form in poems.

life in the South and the North;
Racial identity, racial issues, racial injustice, equality;
Jamaica;
Love, hope, death, dreams;
Forms:
Poetry;
Prose;
Novels;
Fiction.

experience (novels, songs);
James Weldon Johnson – main theme: the racial identity (poems, songs);
Countee Cullen – main theme: racism (poems);
Langston Hughes – main theme: portrayals of black life (short stories, novels, plays, poetry);
Jessie Redmon Fauset – main theme: Black American’s lives (novels);
Zora Neale Hurston – main theme: black culture.

earned a scholarship to Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.
Works:
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers”;
“The Golden Piece”, a play
“The Weary Blues”, which fused jazz and blues together with traditional verse(1926)
The autobiographies (The Big Sea – 1940; I wonder as I wander - 1956);
“Harlem”, a poem (1951);
“Black Nativity”, a play (1961);
“Jericho – Jim Crow” (1964)

1889.
At the age of twenty, McKay published a book of verse called Songs of Jamaica, recording his impressions of black life in Jamaica in dialect.
Works:
Songs of Jamaica (1912), Constab Ballads (1912), Spring in New Hampshire (1920) and Harlem Shadows (1922) –poems;
“The Harlem Dancer”, “Invocation”, sonnets (1917);
“If We Must Die”;
“Home to Harlem” (1929), “Banjo” (1929), and “Banana Bottom” (1933) are written in dialect;
Autobiography “A Long Way from Home” (1937).

League) shifted their interests to economic and social issues in the 1930s;
A riot in Harlem in 1935 - tension between the black community and the white shop-owners in Harlem;
the Harlem Renaissance ended when most of those associated with it left Harlem or stopped writing;