Demystification of the harlem renaissance: a critical analysis of the primitivist representational strategy of the movement

and the handiest option for them was the African-American community that had been subalternized for centuries. This faddist interest of white intelligentsia led to a primitivist vogue among young black writers of the Harlem Renaissance who decided to make use of the unprecedented opportunity and thus succumbed to the exoticist whims of white publishers and patrons. Considering the sociological and literary climate of the Jazz Age white America and its huge impact on black writers of the day, this paper aims to analyze the primitivist representational strategy of the Harlem Renaissance and its detrimental drawbacks