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Transatlantic Cultural Exchange : African American Women's Art and Activism in West Germany.
From Josephine Baker's performances in the 1920s to the 1970s solidarity campaigns for Angela Davis, from Audre Lorde as "mother" of the Afro-German movement in the 1980s to the literary stardom of 1993 Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, Germans have actively engaged with African American...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bielefeld :
Transcript,
2014.
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| Colección: | American studies (Transcript (Firm))
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Transatlantic Cultural Exchange; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 (African) Americanizing Germany; Debates on Americanization; Beyond the German "Sonderfall:" Americanizations in the Plural; Americanizations after 1945; 3 African American Culture in (Postwar) Germany; African American Soldiers and 'Racial' Discourses; Jazz in Germany: A "Checkered History"; Jazz Icon, Show Star, Activist: Josephine Baker and Germany; 4 Transatlantic Political Protests and Countercultures: Angela Davis; Contested Appropriations: Black Power in West Germany.
- Becoming Black, Becoming Active: "Freiheit für Angela Davis!"Angela Davis in West German (Print) Media; Angela Davis's Self-Representation and Counternarrative; 5 Visions of (Global) Sisterhood and Black Solidarity: Audre Lorde; Audre Lorde's Art and Activism; Afro-German Identities, Women's Communities, and Lorde's Legacy in Germany; The Black Diaspora, Germany, and Gender; 6 Transatlantic Travels via Celluloid and the Literary Circuit: Alice Walker and Toni Morrison; African American Women's Cultures on the Big Screen: The Color Purple.
- African American Literature and the Literary Establishment: Toni Morrison7 Conclusion; Works Cited.