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The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature (2 ed.)
... , the journal of the University of Sydney Arts Society, began in 1918 and appeared irregularly; it was incorporated into New Literature Review in 1975 . Several subsequently well-known writers contributed to Arna , including A. D. Hope , Muir Holburn , Charles Higham , Vincent Buckley , Bernard Smith , John Croyston , Bruce Beaver , Donald Horne , Harold Stewart , James McAuley , Geoffrey Lehmann , Les Murray and Clive James...
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The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (2 ed.)
...Arna ( Wendell ) ( 1902–73 ) , author of poetry, stories, histories, novels, and children’s books depicting Black culture and themes of freedom and social justice. Bontemps was born in Louisiana, educated in California, and, as a young adult, moved to New York, where he became a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance alongside Langston Hughes , W. E. B. Du Bois , Claude McKay , and Zora Neale Hurston . He earned a master’s degree in Library Science from the University of Chicago and became librarian of Fisk University, where he helped to...
Bontemps, Arna (1902–1973) Reference library
The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
...tendency to fuse history and imagination represents his personal legacy to a collective memory. Charles H. Nichols , ed., Arna Bontemps-Langston Hughes Letters, 1925–1967, 1988. Kirkland C. Jones , Renaissance Man from Louisiana: A Biography of Arna Wendell Bontemps, 1992. Charles L. James , “Arna W. Bontemps' Creole Heritage,” Syracuse University Library Associates Courier 30 (1995): 91–115. Daniel Reagan , “Achieving Perspective: Arna Bontemps and the Shaping Force of Harlem Culture,” in Essays in Arts and Sciences , 25 (1996): 69–78. Charles L....
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The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English
...Arna ( 1902–73 ), American poet , short-story writer , and novelist , born in Alexandria, Louisiana, educated at Pacific Union College, California and at the University of Chicago. He moved to the Harlem district of New York at the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance, where he became well known as a poet. Most of his poems were published in the 1920s for periodicals such as The Crisis and were collected in Personals ( 1963 ). Though terse in a modernist manner, his poems also echo cadences from traditional African-American Christianity. In the...
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The Oxford Companion to American Literature (6 ed.)
...Arna [Wendell] ( 1902–73 ), Louisiana-born author, educated in California, received an M.A. from the University of Chicago, and was librarian of Fisk University. His novels about his black people include God Sends Sunday ( 1931 ), about a jockey, dramatized with Countee Cullen as St. Louis Woman ( 1946 ); Black Thunder ( 1936 ), about a slave revolt in Virginia in 1800 ; Drums at Dusk ( 1939 ), about the slave revolt and emancipation in Haiti; and many children's books, including Sam Patch ( 1951 ), written with Jack Conroy . His...
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
...Arna Wendell ( 1902–1973 ), African American author and anthologist. A high school teacher and college librarian, Louisiana-born Arna Bontemps spent several years in New York City during the Harlem Renaissance. He collaborated with his friend Langston Hughes in writing his first juvenile book, Popo and Fifina: Children of Haiti ( 1932 ). Throughout his career, Bontemps wrote books for both adults and children, breaking barriers by compiling one of the first African American poetry collections for children ( Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro...
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Popo and Fifina
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