The making of the new Negro [electronic resource] : Black authorship, masculinity, and sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance / Anna Pochmara.
Pochmara, Anna.
2011
PS153.N5 P63 2011eb
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Title The making of the new Negro [electronic resource] : Black authorship, masculinity, and sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance / Anna Pochmara.
Author Pochmara, Anna.
ISBN 9789048514236 (electronic bk.)
9789089643193
Imprint Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (279 p.) : ill.
Call Number PS153.N5 P63 2011eb
Summary 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 Using African American published texts, American archives and unpublished writings, and contemporaneous European discourses, this book focuses both on the canonical figures of the New Negro Movement and African American culture, such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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series American studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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Ch.1. Prologue : The question of manhood in the Booker T. Washington - W.E.B. Du Bois debate
PART I : Alain Locke and the new negro
Ch. 2. Midwifery and camaraderie : Alain Locke's tropes of gender and sexuality
Ch. 3 Arts, war, and the brave new negro : gendering the black aesthetic
PART 2 : Wallace Thurman and niggerati manor. Ch 4. Gangsters and bootblacks, rent parties and railroad flats : Wallace Thurman's challenges to the black bourgeoisie
Ch. 5. Discontents of the black dandy
Ch. 6. Epilogue : Richard Wright's interrogations of the new negro
Conclusion: Black male authorship, sexuality, and the transatlantic connection.

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