1. HARLEM RENAISSANCE PROJECT RACHEL BEAUREGARD

2. JESSIE REDMON FAUSET (1882-1961) Novelist, poet, editor, teacher. Born in Pennsylvania from African American decent. Went to Cornell and graduated with Honors. Taught Latin and French in DC. Wrote for The Crisis magazine. Was a literary editor which gave her a big name. Excelled in novel writing, but wrote poems as well. There is Confusion, The Fire in the Flint, Plum Bun, The Chinaberry Tree… Dealt with better classes and representative Negroes. Explored racial intermixture.

3. LA VIE C’EST LA VIE Theme:  Conveying “refined sentiments”  Enjoying peaceful life beside someone, but racial differences prevent enjoyment  Message is that because of racial differences, one cannot enjoy themselves Tone:  Begins happily; ends in “I wish I were dead” (Fauset)  Mood is mainly proud and happy, but ends in pain and sorrow  Feeling is that African Americans want more rights and freedom Technique:  5 verses, ABCB  Language; 1-2) joyful 3) thankful 4) scared 5) pain  Imagery (1,2) and Juxtaposition (1 to 5)

4. DEAD FIRES Theme:  AA wanting rights and peace  Message is that they are not getting it, it’s “black and leaden” (Fauset) Tone:  Mood; upset and pained  Feeling; AA want more of a fair chance to live Technique:  2 verses, AABB  Language is angry and wanting for what’s right, better crying than passion dying  Alliteration (drawn dreary day), POV (whites don’t think this way)

5. HARLEM RENAISSANCE o African American rights o Wanting so much more than given, unfairness o Speaks for many other authors in “La Vie C’est La Vie” o Wrote in The Crisis which AA’s read

6. COMPARE/CONTRAST Compare:  Rights; Whites over AA  End in wishing death upon something  Convey points of the Harlem Renaissance  Mention pain Contrast:  Different rhyme scheme  La Vie starts off happy, where Fires goes straight into depressed