After WWI everything is society changed and was not perfect anymore. People wanted to find new ideas
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Which poem do you see the difference in being free and liberated?
Refugee in America
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What event happened during this period?
Great Depression
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Name one type of dance that was popular
Charleston, The Black Bottom, The Shimmy
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What did the literature celebrate?
Culture of the African American people
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What did they break the rules of?
Cultural Norms, capitalization, punctuation
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What is the Negro Speaks of Rivers about?
He explains all the places his ancestry has been including the Nile, Euphrates, and Mississippi river. He uses first person but talks for the rest of the culture also
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What did this literature come after?
WWI
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What kept the people entertained during this time?
Radio, board games, musicals
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Name one of the themes:
Disillusionment, want for civil rights, Black is Beautiful
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What did Imagism create?
Concrete images and clear expressions
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What point of veiw did he often use?
1st person, but it represented the whole culture
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What type of literature movement did it come from?
Modernism and Imagism
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What emerged during this time?
Technology
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Why did the Harlem Renaissance start?
The African Americans realized they weren't being represented in literature