Title:
Excerpt from Challenge, a Literary Quarterly (v. 1 no. 2), September 1934
Creator:
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Creator:
West, Dorothy, 1907-1998
Creator:
Boatwright Memorial Library (University of Richmond)
Date:
1934
Description:
1 online resource (6 pages)
Type of Resource:
text
Location:
MS-1, Carl Van Vechten - Mark Lutz Collection, Book Arts, Archives, and Rare Books, Boatwright Memorial Library, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
Subject:
20th century
Subject:
Literature publishing
Subject:
History
Subject:
American literature
Subject:
African American authors
Subject:
United States
Note:
Cover, table of contents, Van Vechten comments, comments from the editor, and short blurbs of included authors in Challenge literary magazine (later renamed New Challenge). Challenge specifically highlighted new "Negro" authors in the immediate post-Harlem Renaissance artistic period.
Contents:
Cover design / Mildred Jones -- Guest editorial / Blanche Colton Williams -- Juan's cocoa / Alfred H. Mendes -- The fire and the cloud / Zora Neale Hurston -- Russian correspondence / Mary Christopher -- Saturday night: Alabama town / Arna Bontemps -- Debunking the spirituals / Walter Everett Hawkins -- Cudjoe / Louis G. Sutherland -- Carl Van Vechten comments -- For a leader / Claude McKay -- Magnets / Countee Cullen -- Miracles / Frank G. Yerby -- Brevity / Frank G. Yerby.