Temples for Tomorrow: Looking Back at the Harlem RenaissanceGenevià ̈ve Fabre, Michel Feith Indiana University Press, 2001 M09 19 - 408 páginas The Harlem Renaissance is rightly considered to be a moment of creative exuberance and unprecedented explosion. Today, there is a renewed interest in this movement, calling for a re-evaluation and a closer scrutiny of the era and of documents that have only recently become available. Temples for Tomorrow reconsiders the period -- between two world wars -- which confirmed the intuitions of W. E. B. DuBois on the "color line" and gave birth to the "American dilemma," later evoked by Gunnar Myrdal. Issuing from a generation bearing new hopes and aspirations, a new vision takes form and develops around the concept of the New Negro, with a goal: to recreate an African American identity and claim its legitimate place in the heart of the nation. In reality, this movement organized into a remarkable institutional network, which was to remain the vision of an elite, but which gave birth to tensions and differences. This collection attempts to assess Harlem's role as a "Black Mecca", as "site of intimate performance" of African American life, and as focal point in the creation of a diasporic identity in dialogue with the Caribbean and French-speaking areas. Essays treat the complex interweaving of Primitivism and Modernism, of folk culture and elitist aspirations in different artistic media, with a view to defining the interaction between music, visual arts, and literature. Also included are known Renaissance intellectuals and writers. Even though they had different conceptions of the role of the African American artist in a racially segregated society, most participants in the New Negro movement shared a desire to express a new assertiveness in terms of literary creation and indentity-building. |
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1 Racial Doubt and Racial Shame in the Harlem Renaissance Arnold Rampersad | 31 |
Constructions of Origins in the Harlem Renaissance Literature Music Visual ArtsMichel Feith | 51 |
3 Oh Africa The Influence of African Art during the Harlem RenaissanceAmy H Kirschke | 73 |
4 Florence B Prices Negro Symphony Rae Linda Brown | 84 |
The Voice of an Era Randall Cherry | 99 |
6 Oscar Micheaux and the Harlem Renaissance Clyde Taylor | 125 |
JamesWeldon Johnsons The Autobiography of an ExColoured Man Alessandro Portelli | 143 |
Language in Their Eyes Were Watching God Claudine Raynaud | 222 |
13 Langston Hughess Blues Monica Michlin | 236 |
Claude McKay and the New Negro Movement Carl Pedersen | 259 |
15 TheWest Indian Presence in Alain Lockes The New Negro 1925Franc ̧oise Charras | 270 |
16 ThreeWays to Translate the Harlem Renaissance Brent Hayes Edwards | 288 |
French Critics and the New Negro Literary Movement 19241964Michel Fabre | 314 |
Chronology | 333 |
Selected Bibliography | 351 |
WEB DuBoiss Notion of Art as Propaganda Alessandra Lorini | 159 |
Interracial Identity in Nella Larsens Quicksand George Hutchinson | 177 |
Toomers Fern and the Harlem Renaissance William Boelhower | 193 |
Reconstructing the Harlem Renaissance in Space Dorothea Lo ̈bbermann | 210 |
Contributors | 379 |
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Temples for Tomorrow: Looking Back at the Harlem Renaissance Geneviève Fabre,Michel Feith Vista de fragmentos - 2001 |