THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
AMERICAN POLITICS IN THE 1920S
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To promote a positive image of blacks and help resolve racial conflicts.
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To be very political, and stay away from fiction or imagined situations.
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That art should portray ordinary, even poor black people, with their good and bad sides.
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That art should be an expression of Black Nationalism, like Garvey was expressing.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes had a lot in common. Both of the writers took their part in the so-called “Harlem Renaissance” – a social, intellectual, and artistic explosion that happened in Harlem, New York, in the 1920s.
Detailed explanation-2: -These last two, Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes shared a patron (Charlotte Mason) and, for many years, a close friendship. The pair even worked together to write the farcical play Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life (1931), however the collaboration ended the friendship.
Detailed explanation-3: -He sought to honestly portray the joys and hardships of working-class black lives, avoiding both sentimental idealization and negative stereotypes.
Detailed explanation-4: -Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston are two modernists who exposed the beauty of the African American Culture. Therefore, there artistic abilities and cultural experiences supported them in identifying themselves through short stories and poems.