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Infants of the Spring

A satirical novel of the Harlem Renaissance.

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  • "Lost American fiction"@en

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  • "Rollicking satire of the Harlem Renaissance centers on the larger-than-life inhabitants of Niggerati Manor, and uptown apartment building modeled on the rooming house where the author once lived among other celebrated black artists and writers. The roman a clef's characters include stand-ins for Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Alain Locke."
  • "A reprint of a novel on a group of black intellectuals during the 1920s Harlem Renaissance. They live in an apartment owned by a black socialite and discuss the New Negro. It is a concept which elicits both enthusiasm and cynicism. By the author of The Blacker the Berry."
  • "A thinly disguised memoir of Thurman's own experiences in the 1920s. [This novel] centers on the larger-than-life denizens of a Harlem mansion called "Niggeratti Manor": Stephen Jorgensen, the recently arrived Canadian; Paul, the ambivalent, uptown social critic; Pelham, the struggling poet; and Eustace Savoy, an entertainer disdainful of his Afro-American musical heritage. In this volatile gumbo of complex characters--which also pokes fun at a few famous writers, including Zora Neale Hurston, Alain Locke, and Langston Hughes--Thurman weaves a hilarious story that critiques the paternalistic Negro author/white patron relationship, uncovers the social-class antagonisms in the Afro-American community, and foreshadows the sexual and social themes of James Baldwin and E. Lynn Harris. Thurman's elegant and elastic prose adds more illumination to this bright period in African American literature. --Eugene Holley Jr.at Amazon.com."
  • "A satirical novel of the Harlem Renaissance."@en

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  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Satire"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
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  • "History"
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  • "Infants of the Spring"
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  • "Infants of the spring : Lost American fiction edited by Mathew J. Bruccoli"@en
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