Transatlantic Crossings Between Paris and New York
Pan-Africanism, Cultural Difference and the Arts in the Interwar Years
by Iris Schmeisser
(Hardback) (Published)
(January 2006)
ISBN: 9783825351281
5.28 x 8.27 inches
Price: $59.00
On back order
How was the question of black cultural difference and identity negotiated among and between black cultural and political organizations in Paris and Harlem? How were concepts of black cultural difference – the idea of what distiguished black expressive culture and what constituted the originality of a black aesthetic – absorbed and articulated by the white artistic avantgarde and the primitivist modernist styles and themes they created? How was knowledge about African culture and ‘African otherness’ visually represented in the discourse of French colonial ethnography and colonial art? This study addresses the dynamics of transatlantic cultural exchange, concretely the international transfer and mediation of images and ideas about black culture in two artistic metropolises – New York and Paris – in the interwar years. These transatlantic crossings and the confluences are analyzed within a postcolonial framework, they are considered as responses to and as consequences of two related and hence intersecting formations of power: racism and colonialism and their political, social, epistemological and finally, cultural dimensions in the United States and France. Proceeding from the historical significance of race, this study links up the discourses of primitivist modernism, jazz, Africanist ethnography and art, the Harlem Renaissance and Negritude, a complex and ambivalent connection neglected until recently in contemporary scholarship.
- By (author) Iris Schmeisser
Other Titles in this Series
Schauspiele des Sehens
Die Figur der Flaneurin, Voyeurin und Stalkerin im U.S.-amerikanischen Essay
Volume 239
Cultural Memories of Origin
Trauma, Memory and Imagery in African American Narratives of the Middle Passage
Volume 241
Naturethik und Neuengland-Regionalliteratur
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rose Terry Cooke, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Volume 116
Entgrenzung der Geschichte
Eine Untersuchung zum historischen Denken der amerikanischen Postmoderne
Volume 122
Dis/United States of Vulnerability
Literary and Cultural Transgressions in U.S. Poetry Since the 1960s
Volume 330
Approaching Whiteness
Acknowledging Native Americans as Scholars of Reversal in 19th Century Autobiographical Writings
Volume 307
Similar Books
Writing of Women as Cultural Resistance
Deconstructing Memory Legacies in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian Atlantic
Tools of Control or Seeds of Liberation?
Reformed Evangelism and Slavery in the Ante-Bellum American South
Die Erinnerung der Hydra
Das Quilombo von Palmares in Geschichte und Gedächtnis (ca. 1595–1995): Sklaverei, Rassismus und Freiheit in Brasilien und entlang des Atlantiks
Literature, Translation, and the Politics of Meaning
Polish, American, and German Literary Traditions
Perspectives on Values
The Network of Satire and Humor, the Tragic and the Absurd, the Grotesque and the Monstrous, Play and Irony, Parody and the Comic Mode
Volume 323
Writing during the Disasters
Modes of Rendering Suffering in Contemporary Experimental American Poetry
Volume 320
Renegotiating American Nationalism
The Proxy War over Marriage Equality through the Lens of Un-Americanism
Volume 317
Through the Bars of My Memory
Prison Life Writing and the Prison Movement of the 1970s and 1980s
Volume 319