Foundations of the Harlem Renaissance. The New Negro as citizen / Jeffrey C. Stewart -- The Renaissance and the Vogue / Emily Bernard -- International contexts of the Negro Renaissance / Michael A. Chaney -- Major Authors and Texts. Negro drama and the Harlem Renaissance / David Krasner -- Jean Toomer and the Avant-Garde / Mark Whalan -- "To Tell the Truth About Us": the fictions and non-fictions of Jessie Fauset and Walter White / Cheryl A. Wall -- African American folk roots and Harlem Renaissance poetry / Mark A. Sanders -- Lyric stars: Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes / James Smethurst -- "Perhaps Buddha Is a Woman": Women's poetry in the Harlem Renaissance / Margo Natalie Crawford -- Transgressive sexuality and the literature of the Harlem Renaissance / A.B. Christa Schwarz -- Sexual desire, modernity and modernism in the fiction of Nella Larsen and Rudolph Fisher / Charles Scruggs -- Banjo meets the Dark Princess: Claude McKay, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the transnational novel of the Harlem Renaissance / William J. Maxwell -- The Caribbean voices of Claude McKay and Eric Walrond / Carl Pedersen -- George Schuyler and Wallace Thurman: two satirists of the Harlem Renaissance / J. Martin Favor -- Zora Neale Hurston, folk performance, and the "Margarine Negro" / Carla Kaplan -- The Post-Renaissance. "The Aftermath": the reputation of the Harlem Renaisance twenty years later / Lawrence Jackson.