A Shared Language of American Modernism: Hemingway and the Black Renaissance

Explores Hemingway’s connections to the Harlem Renaissance via his relationships with Sherwood Anderson, Claude McKay, and Langston Hughes. Concludes that while Hemingway did not participate directly in the Harlem Renaissance, he existed within a modernist community of writers and artists who shared an aesthetic allegiance to depicting both the ugliness and beauty of American life