Dorothy West's ParadiseDorothy West is best known as one of the youngest writers involved in the Harlem Renaissance. Subsequently, her work is read as a product of the urban aesthetics of this artistic movement. But West was also intimately rooted in a very different milieuOak Bluffs, an exclusive retreat for African Americans on Marthas Vineyard. She played an integral role in the development and preservation of that community. In the years between publishing her two