Season 2 Episode
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- Season 2 How Fictional Pandemics Reflect the Real Thing
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- Season 2 War and Peace and Everything Else
- Season 2 The It’s Lit! Musical Episode
- Season 2 The Fiery History of Banned Books
- Season 2 The (Stephen) King of Horror
- Season 2 Are Graphic Novels... Novels?
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- Season 2 Anne Rice, The Queen of Literary Monsters
- Season 2 Literary Icons You NEED to Know From the Harlem Renaissance
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It's Lit! - Season 2 Episode 14 Literary Icons You NEED to Know From the Harlem Renaissance
9.00 6 minutes One of the most influential periods in Black American History post-slavery is the Harlem Renaissance, an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City. Novels like Passing by Nella Larsen, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, and the poetry of Langston Hughes were all written during this period and have become important pieces of the American literary canon. Still, when discussing this topic we tend to flatten the dynamic personalities and identities of the Black folk responsible for making this period so iconic in the literary sense. Not only in America, but as part of the entire Black diaspora.
