Louis Chude-Sokei

The Last Darky

Bert Williams, Black-On-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the use of Africa as a figure in the Harlem Renaissance and looks at the place of that movement within a wider Black modernism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780822336051
• ISBN-10: 0822336057
• Artikelnr.: 21313394

Autorenporträt

Louis Chude-Sokei is Professor of English and African American Studies at Boston University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1
1. Black Minstrel, Black Modernism 17
2. Migrations of a Mask 46
3. Theorizing Black-on-Black Cross-Culturality 82
4. The Global Economy of Minstrelsy 114
5. In Dahomy 161
6. Claude McKay’s Calypso 207
Notes 249
Bibliography 263
Index 272