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Nigger Heaven is a novel written by Carl Van Vechten, and published in October 1926. The book is set during the Harlem Renaissance in the United States in the 1920s. The book and its title have been controversial since its publication.
Nigger Heaven. Carl van Vechten, Kathleen Pfeiffer (Introduction) 3.40. 271 ratings26 reviews. A controversial but appealing, amusing, and vivacious celebration of Harlem and the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920’s.
Nigger Heaven. Lest I perish in the flood." Countée Cullen. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1926, before the cutoff of January 1, 1929. The longest-living author of this work died in 1964, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life ...
Van Vechten’s best-selling “Nigger Heaven” helped make Harlem hot, even as its title guaranteed a stormy reception.
Opening on a scene of tawdry sensationalism, Nigger Heaven shifts decisively to a world of black middle-class respectability, defined by intellectual values, professional ambition,...
Nigger Heaven. Author: Carl Van Vechten. Introduction by Kathleen Pfeiffer. Foreword by Philip Levine. The controversial novel of Harlem and the Harlem Renaissance. Paper – $25. 978-0-252-06860-7. Publication Date. Paperback: 01/01/2000.
Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White. by Emily Bernard. reviewed by Cameron McWhirter. Carl Van Vechten is best-known today not for who he knew or what he wrote but for the title of his most famous novel: Nigger Heaven.
