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Harlem Renaissance

Meaning in literature, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In literature, Harlem Renaissance means: An early twentieth-century flowering of African American writing and arts associated with Harlem.

In Turkish: Harlem Rönesansı

How it is used

Use for the historical cultural movement and its varied writing about Black life, identity and artistic expression.

Example sentences

  1. The Harlem Renaissance reading group compared urban poems with stories about migration.

    Different forms explore experiences connected with changing communities.

  2. The lecturer warned against treating every Harlem Renaissance writer as having the same style.

    A shared movement includes differing artistic choices and viewpoints.

Common collocations

  • Harlem Renaissance writers
  • Harlem Renaissance poetry
  • literary movementA group of writers in a particular period who share similar ideas, styles and aims, such as Romanticism, Realism or Modernism.
  • poetryLiterary writing arranged in lines that uses rhythm, sound, imagery and often rhyme to express feelings and ideas in a concentrated way.

More terms: Literary Movements

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