The New Negro Woman in Three Harlem Renaissance Novels

This thesis investigates the literary representation of the New Negro Woman, an ideal that brought together the claims of the 1890s New Woman and the 1920s Harlem Renaissance, three African American novels, namely Dark Princess by W.E.B. Du Bois, Plum Bun by Jessie Fauset, and Quicksand by Nella Larsen. These three novels were all published in 1928, just before the Stock Market Crash of 1929.