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Harlem Renaissance Project

Harlem Renaissance Project. Rachel Beauregard. Jessie redmon fauset (1882-1961). Novelist, poet, editor, teacher. Born in Pennsylvania from African American decent. Went to Cornell and graduated with Honors. Taught Latin and French in DC. Wrote for The Crisis magazine.

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Harlem Renaissance Project

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  1. Harlem Renaissance Project Rachel Beauregard

  2. Jessie redmonfauset (1882-1961) • Novelist, poet, editor, teacher. • Born in Pennsylvania from African American decent. • Went to Cornell and graduated with Honors. • Taught Latin and French in DC. • Wrote for The Crisis magazine. • Was a literary editor which gave her a big name. • Excelled in novel writing, but wrote poems as well. • There is Confusion, The Fire in the Flint, Plum Bun, The Chinaberry Tree… • Dealt with better classes and representative Negroes. • Explored racial intermixture.

  3. La vie c’est la vie • Theme: • Conveying “refined sentiments” • Enjoying peaceful life beside someone, but racial differences prevent enjoyment • Message is that because of racial differences, one cannot enjoy themselves • Tone: • Begins happily; ends in “I wish I were dead” (Fauset) • Mood is mainly proud and happy, but ends in pain and sorrow • Feeling is that African Americans want more rights and freedom • Technique: • 5 verses, ABCB • Language; 1-2) joyful 3) thankful 4) scared 5) pain • Imagery (1,2) and Juxtaposition (1 to 5)

  4. Dead fires • Theme: • AA wanting rights and peace • Message is that they are not getting it, it’s “black and leaden” (Fauset) • Tone: • Mood; upset and pained • Feeling; AA want more of a fair chance to live • Technique: • 2 verses, AABB • Language is angry and wanting for what’s right, better crying than passion dying • Alliteration (drawn dreary day), POV (whites don’t think this way)

  5. Harlem renaissance • African American rights • Wanting so much more than given, unfairness • Speaks for many other authors in “La Vie C’est La Vie” • Wrote in The Crisis which AA’s read

  6. Compare/contrast • Compare: • Rights; Whites over AA • End in wishing death upon something • Convey points of the Harlem Renaissance • Mention pain • Contrast: • Different rhyme scheme • La Vie starts off happy, where Fires goes straight into depressed

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