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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.
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 ...
The plot of Nigger Heaven is fairly straightforward, devolving at times into melodrama. Its value lies in the conversations between characters, meant to reflect to the audience contemporary black opinions, regarding politics, the "race problem," arts, and entertainment.
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.
Van Vechten’s best-selling “Nigger Heaven” helped make Harlem hot, even as its title guaranteed a stormy reception.
Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White. by Emily Bernard. reviewed by Cameron McWhirter. Carl Van Vechten is best-known today not for who he knew or what he wrote but for the title of his most famous novel: Nigger Heaven.
Van Vechten waged his personal crusade of mediating between black and white, introducing here, facilitating there. But he found himself at the center of the debate about the image of the black in America with the publication of Nigger Heaven (1926), his roman à clef about the Harlem Renaissance.
