Abstract
In view of the presence of proto-modernist ideas and themes in the work of the Irish author Oscar Wilde proposed by Petra Dierkes-Thrun (2011) and the convergences between Irish and African-American literature during the periods called Renaissances (Mishkin, 1998), this project intends to investigate the influence of the tragedy Salome (1891) on the art of the Harlem Renaissance by highli…