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Your Turn: Create MLA Parenthetical Citations
Each item includes sample text and the source to which it relates. Use the
information to write an MLA parenthetical citation within the parentheses.
1. The Harlem Renaissance was an incredible flowering of talent in the African-American
arts community, but there was more critical acclaim and acceptance of these artists in
France than in their own country (_________________).
The text refers to information on page 33 in Harold Jackman’s pamphlet Harlem on
Review Exhibition of Printed Materials from the Harold Jackman Collection: November
15–December 10, 1943 published in 1943 in Atlanta, Georgia, by Atlanta University
Press.
2. Many black writers took refuge in Paris in the ‘20s and ‘30s to escape Prohibition and
the increasing number of lynchings taking place in the American South
(_________________).
The text refers to information in volume 2 of the multivolume work by Cary D. Wintz
and Paul Finkelman, the Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, published in New
York in 2004 by Routledge.
3. Du Bois plays out the difficulties of race relations in an unusual way, by using science
fiction, in his short story “The Comet” (_______________).
The text refers to a short story titled “The Comet” by W. E. B. Du Bois. It can be found
in the anthology, Ebony Rising: Short Fiction of the Greater Harlem Renaissance, on
pages 41 through 52, published by Indiana University Press.
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4. The essay, “Zora Neale Hurston and Modernism at the Critical Limit,” is a new
perspective on modernism and Hurston’s writing (_______________).
The text refers to information on page 289 in Brian Carrs and Tova Cooper’s article,
“Zora Neale Hurston and Modernism at the Critical Limit.” The article was published in
2002 in MFS Modern Fiction Studies, volume 48, issue 2.
5.
The Afro-American Symphony is one of Still’s best-known works for orchestra, but
there is room for new interpretations of the work (__________________).
The text refers to information on page 12 of Laura R. Skinner’s MA thesis titled William
Grant Still and the Problem of the Harlem Renaissance. The University of Oregon
published her thesis in 2001.
6. Cary Wintz’s book, Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance, is a thorough
examination of the Harlem Renaissance as a social and intellectual movement, not
simply another critique of period literature (__________________).
The text refers to Cary D. Wintz’s online book, Black Culture and the Harlem
Renaissance. Rice University Press published it in Houston, Texas, in 1988, and it
appears online at: http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=57016407.
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