THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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Arna Bontemps
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Gwendolyn Bennett
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Jean Toomer
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Jesse Fauset
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Detailed explanation-1: -Dead Fires by Jessie Redmon Fauset-Poems | Academy of American Poets.
Detailed explanation-2: -In Fauset’s best-known novel, Comedy: American Style (1933), Olivia Carey, the protagonist, is a black woman who longs to be white, while her son and husband take pride in their cultural heritage. Fauset’s other novels include There Is Confusion (1924), Plum Bun (1928), and The Chinaberry Tree (1931).
Detailed explanation-3: -Tittle: Dead Fires in the occasion, means that there was once a burning fire of a certain minority who wanted so badly their freedom and justice. Now they were dead because they were not showing their wanting of their justice and equality.
Detailed explanation-4: -She was born Jessie Redmona Fauset (later known as Jessie Redmon Fauset) on April 27, 1882, in Fredericksville, Camden County, Snow Hill Center Township, New Jersey (now known as Lawnside, New Jersey). She was the seventh child of Redmon Fauset, an African Methodist Episcopal minister, and Annie (née Seamon) Fauset.