Wallace Thurman
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"The Blacker the Berry" is the provocative and illuminating 1929 novel by Harlem Renaissance author Wallace Thurman. The novel follows the life of Emma Lou Morgan, a young black woman with dark skin. She is born and raised by her single mother in the predominantly white community of Boise, Idaho. She often feels like an outsider, even among her family, as they are lighter skinned than she, and believes that her dark skin will keep her from marrying...
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This minor classic of the Harlem Renaissance centers on the larger-than-life inhabitants of "Niggerati Manor," an uptown apartment building modeled on the rooming house where the author once lived among other celebrated black artists and writers. The rollicking satire's characters include knowing stand-ins for Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Alain Locke.
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Il s'en passe des choses au nord de Manhattan, en ces années d'après-guerre. Le blues a envahi les têtes et les corps, les hommes et les femmes ont soif de liberté et de mauvais gin. Raymond Taylor, un écrivain à l'ambition débordante, habite avec ses amis artistes dans un immeuble de Harlem qu'ils ont baptisé le manoir Niggeratti. Mais que faut-il pour écrire un chef-d'œuvre ?
Œuvre à la fois puissante et effarouchée, pleine...