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 "With theoretical verve and archival aplomb, Louis Chude-Sokei explores an open secret that we too often have preferred to ignore: the central role of black minstrelsy in the origins of the Harlem Renaissance. Starting with the simple fact of Bert Williams's Caribbean origins, he finds the multiple layers of masquerade in any performance of 'race.' A timely, often profound portrait of the dynamics of intraracial difference in diaspora."--Brent Hayes Edwards, author of "The Practice of Diaspora " 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

Product details

• Authors: Louis Chude-Sokei
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.01.2006
• EAN: 9780822336433
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3643-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book; John Hope Franklin Center Book; A John Hope Franklin Center Book; John Hope Franklin Center Book
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Afrika, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Fernsehen, TV, Regionalstudien