Drawing on fiction, sociology, political speech, autobiography, and performance, Sandhya Shukla develops a living theory of Harlem, in which peoples of different backgrounds collide, interact, and borrow from each other, even while Blackness remains crucial.
Drawing on fiction, sociology, political speech, autobiography, and performance, Sandhya Shukla develops a living theory of Harlem, in which peoples of different backgrounds collide, interact, and borrow from each other, even while Blackness remains crucial.
Sandhya Shukla is associate professor of English and American studies at the University of Virginia, where she is also an affiliate faculty member of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies. She is the author of India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England (2003) and a coeditor of Imagining Our Americas: Toward a Transnational Frame (2007).
Inhaltsangabe
An Introduction to Harlem: Theory, Method and Material 1. Langston Hughes's Harlem: "Spanish Blood" and Geographies of Blackness 2. Mapping Place: The Facts and Fictions of Claude McKay's Harlem Imaginary 3. Crossings at Home and in the World: Vito Marcantonio's Working-Class Cosmopolitanism 4. Selfhood and Difference: Piri Thomas and Aladdin in the Streets of Harlem A Coda for the Stories: Futures for Harlem Acknowledgments Notes Index
An Introduction to Harlem: Theory, Method and Material 1. Langston Hughes's Harlem: "Spanish Blood" and Geographies of Blackness 2. Mapping Place: The Facts and Fictions of Claude McKay's Harlem Imaginary 3. Crossings at Home and in the World: Vito Marcantonio's Working-Class Cosmopolitanism 4. Selfhood and Difference: Piri Thomas and Aladdin in the Streets of Harlem A Coda for the Stories: Futures for Harlem Acknowledgments Notes Index
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