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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. The novel is a portrayal of life in the "great black walled city" of Harlem, part of New York City.
Written from the perspective of two lovers, Mary and Byron, the novel introduces a host of characters who represent the full social, economic, and cultural sweep of Harlem in the 1920s. Van Vechten tackles topics ranging from passing to the impossibility of upward mobility in careers or in the social world.
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 ...
White Mischief. By Kelefa Sanneh. February 9, 2014. Van Vechten’s best-selling “Nigger Heaven” helped make Harlem hot, even as its title guaranteed a stormy reception. Photograph by Carl Van ...
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, and an acute...
Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 – December 21, 1964) was an American writer and artistic photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein. [1] . He gained fame as a writer, and notoriety as well, for his 1926 novel Nigger Heaven.
Martino Fine Books, 2022 - Fiction - 188 pages. 2022 Reprint of the 1926 Edition. With an additional note by the Author and a Critical Commentary by George S. Schuyler. Set during the Harlem...
