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Unfinished Masterpiece: The Harlem Renaissance Fiction of Anita Scott Coleman , and: Western Echoes of the Harlem Renaissance: The Life and Writings of Anita Scott Coleman (review)

Unfinished Masterpiece: The Harlem Renaissance Fiction of Anita Scott Coleman , and: Western... Book REVIEWs ANITA SCOTT. Ca. 1915. Photographer unknown. Courtesy of the Anita Scott Coleman family collection. Book Reviews 389 Unfinished Masterpiece: The Harlem Renaissance Fiction of Anita Scott Coleman. Edited by Laurie Champion and Bruce A. Glasrud. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2008. 189 pages, $22.95. Western Echoes of the Harlem Renaissance: The Life and Writings of Anita Scott Coleman. Edited by Cynthia Davis and Verner D. Mitchell. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. 300 pages, $45.00/$19.95. Reviewed by Melody Graulich Utah State University, Logan "For here [in the West] prevails for every man be he white or black a hardier philosophy--and a bigger and better chance, that is not encountered elsewhere in these United States," wrote Anita Scott Coleman in 1926 (Western Echoes 285). A black woman born in 1890 in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico, where her family had migrated from Florida, Coleman was no naïve idealist about the black man's--or woman's--chances. Major themes in her fiction and poetry were discrimination, prejudice, lack of opportunity, yet her work is optimistic and positive, her female characters sharing "her own quiet confidence and sense of self worth," unlike the "tragic, dissatisfied, or demoralized young women" in the work of many http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Western American Literature University of Nebraska Press

Unfinished Masterpiece: The Harlem Renaissance Fiction of Anita Scott Coleman , and: Western Echoes of the Harlem Renaissance: The Life and Writings of Anita Scott Coleman (review)

Western American Literature , Volume 44 (4) – Feb 18, 2009

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Book REVIEWs ANITA SCOTT. Ca. 1915. Photographer unknown. Courtesy of the Anita Scott Coleman family collection. Book Reviews 389 Unfinished Masterpiece: The Harlem Renaissance Fiction of Anita Scott Coleman. Edited by Laurie Champion and Bruce A. Glasrud. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2008. 189 pages, $22.95. Western Echoes of the Harlem Renaissance: The Life and Writings of Anita Scott Coleman. Edited by Cynthia Davis and Verner D. Mitchell. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. 300 pages, $45.00/$19.95. Reviewed by Melody Graulich Utah State University, Logan "For here [in the West] prevails for every man be he white or black a hardier philosophy--and a bigger and better chance, that is not encountered elsewhere in these United States," wrote Anita Scott Coleman in 1926 (Western Echoes 285). A black woman born in 1890 in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico, where her family had migrated from Florida, Coleman was no naïve idealist about the black man's--or woman's--chances. Major themes in her fiction and poetry were discrimination, prejudice, lack of opportunity, yet her work is optimistic and positive, her female characters sharing "her own quiet confidence and sense of self worth," unlike the "tragic, dissatisfied, or demoralized young women" in the work of many

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Published: Feb 18, 2009

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