The New Negro Aesthetic
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The New Negro Aesthetic
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Author : Alain Locke
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2022-01-18
The New Negro Aesthetic written by Alain Locke and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-18 with Literary Collections categories.
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer edits a collection of Alain Locke's influential essays on the importance of the Black artist and the Black imagination A Penguin Classic For months, the philosopher Alain Locke wrestled with the idea of the Negro as America's most vexing problem. He asked how shall Negroes think of themselves as he considered the new crop of poets, novelists, and short story writers who, in 1924, wrote about their experiences as Black people in America. He did not want to frame Harlem and Black writing as yet another protest against racism, nor did he want to focus on the sociological perspective on the "Negro problem" and Harlem as a site of crime, poverty, and dysfunction. He wanted to find new language and a new way for Black people to think of themselves. The essays and articles collected in this volume, by Locke's Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer, are the result of that new attitude and the struggle to instill the New Negro aesthetics, as Stewart calls it here, into the mind of the twentieth century. To be a New Negro poet, novelist, actor, musician, dancer, or filmmaker was to commit oneself to an arc of self-discovery of what and who the Negro was—would be—without fear that one would disappoint the white or Black bystander. In committing to that path, Locke asserted, one would uncover a "being-in-the-world" that was rich and bountiful in its creative possibilities, if Black people could turn off the noise of racism and see themselves for who they really are: a world of creative people who have transformed, powerfully and perpetually, the culture of wherever history or social forces landed them.
Hearing The Hurt
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Author : Eric King Watts
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2012-06-19
Hearing The Hurt written by Eric King Watts and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-19 with History categories.
Hearing the Hurt is an examination of how the New Negro movement, also known as the Harlem Renaissance, provoked and sustained public discourse and deliberation about black culture and identity in the early twentieth century. Borrowing its title from a W. E. B. Du Bois essay, Hearing the Hurt explores the nature of rhetorical invention, performance, and mutation by focusing on the multifaceted issues brought forth in the New Negro movement, which Watts treats as a rhetorical struggle over what it means to be properly black and at the same time properly American. Who determines the meaning of blackness? How should African Americans fit in with American public culture? In what way should black communities and families be structured? The New Negro movement animated dynamic tension among diverse characterizations of African American civil rights, intellectual life, and well-being, and thus it provides a fascinating and complex stage on which to study how ideologies clash with each other to become accepted universally. Watts, conceptualizing the artistic culture of the time as directly affected by the New Negro public discourse, maps this rhetorical struggle onto the realm of aesthetics and discusses some key incarnations of New Negro rhetoric in select speeches, essays, and novels.
The New Negro
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Author : Jeffrey C. Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018
The New Negro written by Jeffrey C. Stewart and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro--the creative African Americans whose art, literature, music, and drama would inspire Black people to greatness. [The author] offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally"--Amazon.com.
The Making Of The New Negro
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Author : Anna Pochmara
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 2011
The Making Of The New Negro written by Anna Pochmara and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Social Science categories.
The Making of the New Negro examines black masculinity in the period of the New Negro/Harlem Renaissance, which for many decades did not attract a lot of scholarly attention, until, in the 1990s, many scholars discovered how complex, significant, and fascinating it was. Using African American published texts, American archives and unpublished writings, and contemporaneous European discourses, this book focuses both on the canonical figures of the New Negro Movement and African American culture, such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, Alain Locke, and Richard Wright, and on writers who have not received as much scholarly attention despite their significance for the movement, such as Wallace Thurman. Its perspective combines gender, sexuality, and race studies with a thorough literary analysis and historicist investigation, an approach that has not been extensively applied to analyze the New Negro Renaissance.
The New Negro
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Author : Alain Locke
language : en
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Release Date : 2021-01-13
The New Negro written by Alain Locke and has been published by Courier Dover Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-13 with Literary Collections categories.
Widely regarded as the key text of the Harlem Renaissance, this landmark anthology of fiction, poetry, essays, drama, music, and illustration includes contributions by Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, James Weldon Johnson, and other luminaries.
A History Of The Harlem Renaissance
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Author : Rachel Farebrother
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-02-04
A History Of The Harlem Renaissance written by Rachel Farebrother and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book presents original essays that explore the eclecticism of Harlem Renaissance literature and culture.
The Cambridge Companion To W E B Du Bois
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Author : Shamoon Zamir
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2008-09-11
The Cambridge Companion To W E B Du Bois written by Shamoon Zamir and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
W. E. B. Du Bois was the pre-eminent African American intellectual of the twentieth century. As a pioneering historian, sociologist and civil rights activist, and as a novelist and autobiographer, he made the problem of race central to an understanding of the United States within both national and transnational contexts; his masterwork The Souls of Black Folk (1903) is today among the most widely read and most often quoted works of American literature. This Companion presents ten specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars which explore key aspects of Du Bois's work. The book offers students a critical introduction to Du Bois, as well as opening new pathways into the further study of his remarkable career. It will be of interest to all those working in African American studies, American literature, and American studies generally.
Artistic Ambassadors
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Author : Brian Russell Roberts
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2013-01-15
Artistic Ambassadors written by Brian Russell Roberts and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
During the first generation of black participation in U.S. diplomacy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a vibrant community of African American writers and cultural figures worked as U.S. representatives abroad. Through the literary and diplomatic dossiers of figures such as Frederick Douglass, James Weldon Johnson, Archibald and Angelina Grimké, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida Gibbs Hunt, and Richard Wright, Brian Roberts shows how the intersection of black aesthetic trends and U.S. political culture both Americanized and internationalized the trope of the New Negro. This decades-long relationship began during the days of Reconstruction, and it flourished as U.S. presidents courted and rewarded their black voting constituencies by appointing black men as consuls and ministers to such locales as Liberia, Haiti, Madagascar, and Venezuela. These appointments changed the complexion of U.S. interactions with nations and colonies of color; in turn, state-sponsored black travel gave rise to literary works that imported international representation into New Negro discourse on aesthetics, race, and African American culture. Beyond offering a narrative of the formative dialogue between black transnationalism and U.S. international diplomacy, Artistic Ambassadors also illuminates a broader literary culture that reached both black and white America as well as the black diaspora and the wider world of people of color. In light of the U.S. appointments of its first two black secretaries of state and the election of its first black president, this complex representational legacy has continued relevance to our understanding of current American internationalism.
Ishmael Reed And The New Black Aesthetic Critics
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Author : Reginald Martin
language : en
Publisher: MacMillan
Release Date : 1988
Ishmael Reed And The New Black Aesthetic Critics written by Reginald Martin and has been published by MacMillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Aesthetics, African American categories.
The Collage Aesthetic In The Harlem Renaissance
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Author : Rachel Farebrother
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2009
The Collage Aesthetic In The Harlem Renaissance written by Rachel Farebrother and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Literary Criticism categories.
Beginning with a subtle and persuasive analysis of the cultural context, Farebrother examines collage in modernist and Harlem Renaissance figurative art and unearths the collage sensibility attendant in Franz Boas's anthropology. This strategy makes explicit the formal choices of Harlem Renaissance writers by examining them in light of African American vernacular culture and early twentieth-century discourses of anthropology, cultural nationalism and international modernism. At the same time, attention to the politics of form in such texts as Toomer's Cane, Locke's The New Negro and selected works by Hurston reveals that the production of analogies, juxtapositions, frictions and distinctions on the page has aesthetic, historical and political implications. Why did these African American writers adopt collage form during the Harlem Renaissance? What did it allow them to articulate? These are among the questions Farebrother poses as she strives for a middle ground between critics who view the Harlem Renaissance as a distinctive, and necessarily subversive, kind of modernism and those who foreground the cooperative nature of interracial creative work during the period. A key feature of her project is her exploration of neglected connections between Euro-American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, a journey she negotiates while never losing sight of the particularity of African American experience. Ambitious and wide-ranging, Rachel Farebrother's book offers us a fresh lens through which to view this crucial moment in American culture.