Bricktop's Paris : African American Women in Paris between the Two World Wars /
Tells the fascinating story of African American women who traveled to France to seek freedom of expression. During the Jazz Age, France became a place where an African American woman could realize personal freedom and creativity, in narrative or in performance, in clay or on canvas, in life and in l...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
SUNY Press, State University of New York Press,
[2015]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The other Americans, 1919-1939
- Les Dames, grand and small, of Montmartre : the Paris of Bricktop
- The Gotham-Montparnasse exchange
- Women of the Petit Boulevard : the artist's haven
- Black Paris : cultural politics and prose
- "Homeward tug at a poet's heart" : the return
- Appendix: "Negro Dance," Opus 25, No. 1 / Nora Douglas Holt
- Gained in translation? / Alice Randall
- History's marginalia, autofictional mysteries, and a fondness for matters French / T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
- The autobiography of Ada "Bricktop" Smith, or Miss Baker regrets / Ada "Bricktop" Smith and T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting.