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A Study of Poetry
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"Future Expectations" by James Van der Zee, c. 1925. James VanDerZee.
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Jessie Redmon Fauset: References & Edit History

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Carolyn Wedin Sylvander, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Black American Writer (1981), is a detailed overview of Fauset’s life and works. Studies with a narrower focus include Abby Arthur Johnson, “Literary Midwife: Jessie Redmon Fauset and the Harlem Renaissance,” Phylon, 39(2):143–153 (2nd Quarter 1978); Deborah E. McDowell, “The Neglected Dimension of Jessie Redmon Fauset,” in Marjorie Pryse and Hortense J. Spillers (eds.), Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction, and Literary Tradition (1985), pp. 86–104; Cheryl A. Wall, Women of the Harlem Renaissance (1995); Jacquelyn Y. McLendon, The Politics of Color in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen (1995); and Sharon L. Jones, Rereading the Harlem Renaissance: Race, Class, and Gender in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dorothy West (2002).

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Anniversary information added. Apr 30, 2024
Anniversary information added. Apr 23, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Jan 29, 2024
Links added. Jan 26, 2023
Modified link of Web site: Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Biography of Jessie Redmon Fauset. Jun 05, 2017
New bibliography added. Nov 26, 2014
Added "Literary Midwife: Jessie Redmon Fauset and the Harlem Renaissance," by Abby Arthur Johnson, to the bibliography. Nov 26, 2014
Add new Web site: Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Biography of Jessie Redmon Fauset. Feb 12, 2014
Add new Web site: BlackPast.org - Biography of Jessie R. Fauset. Feb 12, 2014
Added new Web site: Voices from the Gaps - Biography of Jessie Redmon Fauset. Aug 03, 2006
Article revised. Dec 17, 1999
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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