Marita bonner short stories

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Marita Bonner

American dramatist (–)

Marita Bonner
Born	()June 16, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	December 6, () (aged&#;72) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality	American
Other&#;names	Marita Occomy; Marita Odette Bonner; Marita Odette Bonner Occomy; Marita Bonner Occomy; Joseph Maree Andrew
Occupations

Marita Bonner (June 16, – December 7, ), also known as Marieta Bonner, was an American writer, essayist, and playwright who is commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Other names she went by were Marita Occomy, Marita Odette Bonner, Marita Odette Bonner Occomy, Marita Bonner Occomy, and Joseph Maree Andrew. On December 29, , along with 15 other women, she chartered the Iota chapter of Delta Sigma Theta sorority.^[1]

Life

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Marita Bonner was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Joseph and Anne Noel Bonner. Marita was one of four children and was brought up in a middle-class community in Massachusetts. She attended Brookline High School, where she contributed to the school magazine, The Sagamore. She excelled in German and Music, and was a very talented pianist. In , she graduated from Brookline High School and in enrolled in Radcliffe College, commuting to campus because many African-American studen

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Engendering the Harlem Renaissance: The short stories of Marita Bonner, Zora Neale Hurston, and other African American women,

Judith A Musser, Purdue University

Abstract

The period traditionally called the "Harlem Renaissance" was an era in which African American women short story writers first established themselves in the mainstream of letters. Their stories are significant because their themes, characters, plots, settings, and writing styles challenged the ideas, philosophies, and conventions which have generally been considered characteristic of this period of literary history. In addition, these stories contribute to an African American women's writing tradition which can be traced throughout African American women's writings. This study surveys stories published by women in two of the leading African American journals during the Harlem Renaissance, Opportunity and The Crisis. These women, responding to the call to create literature which would represent the "New Negro," created stories which reflected their own gendered viewpoint. Their perspectives on sociological, academic, and aesthetic issues need to be considered and incorporated for a more inclusive understanding of the Harlem Renaissance. This general consideration of these many stories provides a context