Temples for tomorrow : looking back at the Harlem Renaissance

著者

• Fabre, Geneviève
• Feith, Michel

書誌事項

Temples for tomorrow : looking back at the Harlem Renaissance

edited by Geneviève Fabre and Michel Feith

Indiana University Press, c2001

• : pbk

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-378) and index

Chronology: p. [333-349]

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780253214256

内容説明

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.

目次

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction / Genevieve Fabre and Michel Feith 1. Racial Doubt and Racial Shame in the Harlem Renaissance / Arnold Rampersad Part I. Criteria of Renaissance Art 2. The Syncopated African : Construction of Origins During the Harlem Renaissance / Michel Feith 3. Oh Africa!: The Influence of African Art During the Harlem Renaissance / Amy Kirschke 4. The Heart of a Woman : Florence Price's Symphony in E Minor in the Context of the Harlem Renaissance / Rae Linda Brown 5. Ethel Waters: The Voice of an Era / Randall Cherry 6. Race Movies and the Harlem Renaissance / Clyde Taylor Part II. Enter The New Negro: Some Writers of the Renaissance: 7. The Tragedy and the Joke: James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man / Alessandro Portelli 8. "The Spell of Africa Is Upon Me": W.E.B. Du Bois's Notion of Art as Propaganda / Alessandra Lorini 9. Subject to Disappearance: Interracial Identity in Nella Larsen's Quicksand / George Hutchinson 10. No Free Gift: From Jean Toomer's "Fern" to Fisher's "Miss Cynthie" / William Boelhower 11. Harlem as a Memory Place: Reconstructing the Harlem Renaissance in Space / Dorothea Loebbermann 12. "Thoughts Untouched by Words": Language in Their Eyes Were Watching God / Claudine Raynaud 13. Langston Hughes's Blues / Monica Michlin Part III. The Negro Mind Reaches Out: The Renaissance in International Perspective: 14. The Tropics in New York: Claude McKay and the New Negro Movement / Carl Pedersen 15. The West Indian Presence in Alain Locke's New Negro / Francoise Charras 16. Three Ways to Translate the Harlem Renaissance / Brent Edwards 17. Modernism, the New Negro and Negritude / Michel Fabre Chronology Selected Bibliography Index

巻冊次

ISBN 9780253328861

内容説明

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 "colour 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 organised 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.

目次

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction /Genevieve Fabre and Michel Feith 1. Racial Doubt and Racial Shame in the Harlem Renaissance /Arnold Rampersad Part I. Criteria of Renaissance Art 2. The Syncopated African : Construction of Origins During the Harlem Renaissance /Michel Feith 3. Oh Africa!: The Influence of African Art During the Harlem Renaissance /Amy Kirschke 4. The Heart of a Woman : Florence Price's Symphony in E Minor in the Context of the Harlem Renaissance /Rae Linda Brown 5. Ethel Waters: The Voice of an Era /Randall Cherry 6. Race Movies and the Harlem Renaissance /Clyde Taylor Part II. Enter The New Negro: Some Writers of the Renaissance: 7. The Tragedy and the Joke: James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man /Alessandro Portelli 8. "The Spell of Africa Is Upon Me": W.E.B. Du Bois's Notion of Art as Propaganda /Alessandra Lorini 9. Subject to Disappearance: Interracial Identity in Nella Larsen's Quicksand /George Hutchinson 10. No Free Gift: From Jean Toomer's "Fern" to Fisher's "Miss Cynthie" /William Boelhower 11. Harlem as a Memory Place: Reconstructing the Harlem Renaissance in Space /Dorothea L'bbermann 12. "Thoughts Untouched by Words": Language in Their Eyes Were Watching God /Claudine Raynaud 13. Langston Hughes's Blues /Monica Michlin Part III. The Negro Mind Reaches Out: The Renaissance in International Perspective: 14. The Tropics in New York: Claude McKay and the New Negro Movement /Carl Pedersen 15. The West Indian Presence in Alain Locke's New Negro /Franioise Charras 16. Three Ways to Translate the Harlem Renaissance /Brent Edwards 17. Modernism, the New Negro and N?gritude /Michel Fabre Chronology Selected Bibliography Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA5360795X
• ISBN:
  • 0253328861
  • 0253214254
• LCCN: 00063426
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Bloomington
• ページ数/冊数: x, 392 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : PS153.N5
  • DC21 : 810.9/89607471
• 件名:
  • LCSH : American literature -- Afro-American authors -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : American literature -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Afro-Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life
  • LCSH : American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Afro-American arts -- New York (State) -- New York
  • LCSH : Afro-Americans in literature
  • LCSH : Harlem Renaissance