The Harlem Renaissance and Modernism

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The Harlem RenaissanceandModernism
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What is modern?

• Why do people like to be on the cutting edge?
• What does modern mean to you?

• Is this modern?

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Can Ideals Survive Catastrophe?

• How can people hold on to their idealism in light
  of dire events?
• Is it even possible?

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How Can People Honor their Heritage?

• Is it important to honor your past?
• Writing is one way to honor ones past what are
  other ways to do this?

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What drives human behavior?

• Do you think people regulate their behavior
  through reason and understanding?
• Or are they driven by unconscious desire?

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What are some of the major events from 1910 to
1940?

• Pause and chat with your neighbor

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WWI 1914 to 1918

• How was WWI different from previous wars?

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New War Technology

• Machine guns
• Poison gas
• Airplane bombers
• Submarines

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WWI The first modern war

• Some facts
• 32 nations were involved.
• 20 million were dead.

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What effect did the war have on society?

• Words such as glory, honor, courage or hallow
  were obscene.
• --Ernest Hemingway

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The Jazz Age

• (from a 1929 movie poster)

• Some Americans, disillusioned with the
  traditional values that led to war, sought escape
  in the pleasures of entertainment and good times.

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The Roaring Twenties

• A booming economy characterized this time.

• the greatest, guadiest spree in history F.
  Scott Fitzgerald

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1920s Incomes on the Rise

• More money for goods

• More money for leisure

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Prohibition

• Alcohol was outlawed from 1920 to 1933.

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Speakeasys illegal bars became popular

• Gangsters made their fortune in the blackmarket
  for alcohol.
• The Cotton Club, a popular Harlem night club, had
  all white guests listening to Black performers.

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It was about time!

• In 1920, passage of the 19th Amendment finally
  gave women the right to vote!

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Flappersthe new woman

• The flapper was an emancipated young woman who
  embraced new fashions and the urban attitudes of
  the day.

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The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald

• F. Scott Fitzgerald was the voice of the 1920s.
  He criticized the dark underside of the lives of
  the very rich.

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The Harlem Renaissance

• When 1916 through 1920s
• What Flowering of African American arts and
  culture
• Where Harlem, New York City

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Great Migration

• Millions of black farmers and sharecroppers moved
  to the urban North in search of opportunity and
  freedom from oppression and racial hostility.

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Destination Harlem

• Harlem the upper West side of Manhattan
  quickly became the cultural center of
  African-American life.

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Zora Neale Hurston

• Their Eyes Were Watching God is amongst the works
  that made her a figure in the Harlem Renaissance.

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Langston Hughes

• One of the leading poets of the Harlem
  Renaissance

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The Great Depression

• The Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the subsequent
  Great Depression spelled an end to the Roaring
  Twenties and the Harlem Renaissance.

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Modernism

• Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942

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Modernism means

• Art of writing that reflects a loss of hope
  after World War I and believes individuals are
  threatened and isolated by society and mass
  culture.

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Bring out the Modernists

• Poet William Carlos Williams is a Modernist.

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I guess that about covers it

• Thanks for listening!