Inventing the New Negro : Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography /

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Daphne Lamothe explores how many black writers and intellectuals in the early twentieth century adapted ethnography and folklore in their narratives to create a cohesive, collective, and modern Black identity.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Lamothe, Daphne Mary (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Harlem Renaissance.
Ethnology.
Black people.
Anthropology in literature.
American literature > African American authors.
African Americans in literature.
African American intellectuals.
African American anthropologists.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
Anthropologie dans la litterature.
Noirs americains dans la litterature.
Anthropologues noirs americains.
Intellectuels noirs americains.
Ethnologie > États-Unis.
Noirs.
Blacks
Ethnology > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1: Ethnography and the New Negro Imagination
  • Chapter 2: Men of Science in the Post-Slavery Era
  • Chapter 3: Raising the Veil: Racial Divides and Ethnographic Crossings in The Souls of Black Folk
  • Chapter 4: Striking Out into the Interior: Travel, Imperialism, and Ethnographic Perspectives in The Autobiography of an Ex -Colored Man
  • Chapter 5: Living Culture in Sterling Brown's Southern Road
  • Chapter 6: Woman Dancing Culture: Katherine Dunham's Dance/ Anthropology
  • Chapter 7: Narrative Dissonance: Conflict and Contradiction in Hurston's Caribbean Ethnography
  • Chapter 8: Their Eyes Were Watching God and the Vodou Intertext
  • Chapter 9: Afterword
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.

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