The making of the new Negro [electronic resource] : Black authorship, masculinity, and sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance / Anna Pochmara.

9789048514236 (electronic bk.)
9789089643193

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2011.

English

1 online resource (279 p.) : ill.

PS153.N5 P63 2011eb

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 Using African American published texts, American archives and unpublished writings, and contemporaneous European discourses, this book focuses both on the canonical figures of the New Negro Movement and African American culture, such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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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American studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

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