Aims: to give students information about Harlem Renaissance; to emphasize the importance of Harlem Renaissance in Afro-American literature; to teach students the influence of Harlem Renaissance. Objectives

2.Harlem Renaissance History
The Harlem Renaissance was associate intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship targeted in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the between 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it had been called the "New Negro Movement", named after The New Negro, a 1925 anthology edited by Alain Locke. The movement additionally enclosed the new African -American cultural expressions across the urban areas within the Northeast and Midwest United States affected revived aggressiveness within the general struggle for civil rights, combined with the Great Migration of African -American employees fleeing the racist conditions of the Jim Crow Deep South ,as Harlem was the ultimate destination of the most important variety of those who migrated north.
The movement enclosed Black artists from many disciplines—including music, visual art, fashion, and literature. Musicians like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Bessie Smith reinvented jazz in common nightclubs, whereas painters like Aaron Douglas incorporated ancient African imagination into new style. Writers like Nella Larsen and Georgia Douglas Johnson wrote novels, plays, and poems that reframed what it meant to be an Afro-American within the early twentieth century. The Renaissance was both a literary and social movement, because it possessed an exact sociological development—particularly through a new racial consciousness—through ethnic pride, as seen within the Back to Africa movement guided by Jamaican Marcus Garvey.

3.Harlem Renaissance Literature and Art

Harlem Renaissance literature celebrated and investigated Black life and culture within the early twentieth century. Harlem Renaissance literature encompasses the poetry, fiction, and non-fiction written by Black American writers throughout the beginning of the twentieth century. During the Harlem Renaissance movement, Black writers created work that celebrated Black culture and their traditions. Harlem Renaissance writers openly revealed the hardships endured by Black folks throughout slavery and also Jim Crow-era segregation in US. By the late 1920s, the Harlem Renaissance was fully swing, with Afro- American artists making a huge amount of works. Black poets, authors, and essayists created thousands of works that helped lay the framework for the civil rights movement to follow decades later.

The African Americans employed art to prove their humanity and demand for equality. The Harlem Renaissance brought many additional opportunities for Blacks to be printed by mainstream homes. A lot of authors began to publish novels, magazines and newspapers at that moment. The new fiction fascinated the state massively. Among authors that became prominent were Jean Toomer, Jessie Fauset, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, Alain Locke, Omar Al Amiri, Eric D. Walrond and Langston Hughes.

The Harlem Renaissance helped set the foundation for the post-World War II protest movement of the Civil Rights movement. Moreover, several black artists who rose to artistic maturity subsequently were supported by this literary movement.

Harlem Renaissance literature grew out of the turmoil of slavery, segregation, and institutional racism.

By the late 1920s, the age was fully swing, with American artists making a huge amount of works. Black poets, authors, and essayists wrote thousands of works that helped lay the framework for the civil rights movement to follow decades later.

1. Claude McKay (1889–1948): Born in Jamaica, Claude McKay moved to Harlem in 1914 and became an essential representative of the Harlem
Renaissance movement . One of his 1st novels, Home to Harlem (1928), follows a young soldier deserts his army position throughout World War I and stays in Harlem. His poem “If Must Die” (1919) was released in the magazine The Liberator, that he co-edited for a short time.