Harlem Renaissance

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Harlem Renaissance

Jan Willem van Houten, Rens Nierop, Lucas van Wijk

Table of Contents

- Goal of presentation

- Spirit of time

- What was the Harlem Renaissance

- Zora Neale Hurston

- Their Eyes Were Watching God

- Outcome of the Harlem Renaissance

- Opinion

The goal of the presentation is to explain the importance of the Harlem Renaissance on literature and society. 

Spirit of time

- Reconstruction Era

- Racism

- Great Migration

- Cultural conflicts

- Great Depression

What words can you link to the Harlem Renaissance?

What was the Harlem Renaissance

- 1918 to 1937

- Afro-American culture

- Reconceptualize

- Against racist believes

- Harlem

What words can you link to the Harlem Renaissance?

Zora Neale Hurston

- New York

- First contact Harlem Renaissance

- Literary writer

- Oblivion

Their Eyes Were Watching God

- Janie Crawford

- Birth town

- Joe Sparks

- Younger man

- Phoebe

''Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.”

“Then you must tell 'em dat love ain't somethin' lak uh grindstone dat's de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.”

How does this novel relate to the Harlem Renaissance?

Symbols

- The Gate

- Janie's head rag

- The Mule

Outcome of the Harlem Renaissance

- Renewed image

- Creative efforts

- Diverting

- Legendary land

Our opinion

- Turning point

- Impact

- Literature

- Relations

We hope you now understand and see how Important the Harlem Renaissance was for Literature and society

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