American writers of the Harlem Renaissance generally fall into three aesthetic categories: "the folk," which emphasizes oral traditions, African American English, rural settings, and characters from lower socioeconomic levels; "the bourgeois," which privileges characters from middle class backgrounds; and "the proletarian," which favors overt critiques of oppression by contending that art should be an instrument of propaganda. Depending on critical assumptions…
Author: Sharon L. Jones · Original publisher: Greenwood Press (Westport, CT, 2002)
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