Last 'Darky' - Bert Williams, Black-On-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora

Informationen zum Autor Louis Chude-Sokei is Professor of English and African American Studies at Boston University. Klappentext Examines the use of Africa as a figure in the Harlem Renaissance and looks at the place of that movement within a wider Black modernism. Zusammenfassung Examines the use of Africa as a figure in the Harlem Renaissance and looks at the place of that movement within a wider Black modernism Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1 1. Black Minstrel, Black Modernism 17 2. Migrations of a Mask 46 3. Theorizing Black-on-Black Cross-Culturality 82 4. The Global Economy of Minstrelsy 114 5. In Dahomy 161 6. Claude McKay’s Calypso 207 Notes 249 Bibliography 263 Index 272

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Louis Chude-Sokei
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 16.01.2006
• EAN: 9780822336051
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3605-1
• Seiten: 288
• Abmessung: 159 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Serien: A John Hope Franklin Center Book; John Hope Franklin Center Book; A John Hope Franklin Center Book; John Hope Franklin Center Book
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Theater, Ballett; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Ethnologie > Volkskunde