The Harlem Renaissance Women Writers

Abstract

AbstractAfrican American women writers have remained unnoticed, from what is characterize today as African literature, for the long time. In 1746, a black woman, Lucy Terry, gave birth to African American literature with “Bars Fight”. Other examples of literature written by African American women appeared around 1859, as part of general renaissance of black literature in the 1850s. Since then, African American literature has performed a long journey. A large chunk of female writers emerged during the civil war and with the dawn of the Harlem Renaissance. These writers produced literature in various literary genres with the burning issues of the time which paved the way for the writers’ of the coming generation. This research paper offers a very basic introduction to some of the Afro-American women writers of Harlem Renaissance and their contribution to Afro-American literature which proved very prominent in exercising influence on the writers of upcoming generation. This also highlights the issues of these writers dealt with which are in current discussion of the present time writers of Afro-American literature.