Works of Alain Locke

Herausgeber: Molesworth, Charles

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Produktbeschreibung

The Works of Alain Locke provides a definitive collection of writings by a towering figure in African American thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 930g
• ISBN-13: 9780199795048
• ISBN-10: 0199795045
• Artikelnr.: 36443967

Autorenporträt

Charles Molesworth is the coauthor, with Leonard Harris, of Alain L. Locke: The Biography of a Philosopher (University of Chicago Press, 2008).

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
* Introduction
* Note on the Text and Acknowledgments
* I. Literature
* 1. On Paul Laurence Dunbar (1905)
* 2."The Romantic Movement As Expressed by John Keats" (1907)
* 3. "Emile Verhaeren" (1917)
* 4. "Colonial Literature of France" (1923)
* 5. "The Younger Literary Movement" (1923); co authored with Du Bois
* 6. Review of Countee Cullen's Color (1926)
* 7. Review of Langston Hughes The Weary Blues (1926)
* 8. Review of Langston Hughes' Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927)
* 9. "The Poetry of Negro Life" (Preface to Four Negro Poets, 1926)
* 10. "American Literary Tradition and the Negro"(1926)
* 11. Review of FIRE!!(1927)
* 12. "Message of the Negro Poets"(1927)
* 13. Foreword to Georgia Douglas Johnson's An Autumn Love Cycle
(1928)
* 14 ."Both Sides of the Color Line" (Review of W. Thurman and J.
Fauset (1929)
* 15. "Negro Minority in American Literature"(1946)
* II. Art, Drama and Music
* 1. "Steps Toward the Negro Theatre" (1922)
* 2. "A Note on African Art" (1924)
* 3. "The Negro Spirituals" (1925)
* 4. "More of the Negro in Art" (1925)
* 5. "The Negro and the American Stage" (1926)
* 6. "Drama of Negro Life" (1926)
* 7. "The Blondiau-Theatre Arts Collection" (1927)
* 8. "The American Negro as Artist" (1931)
* 9. "Toward a Critique of Negro Music"(1934)
* 10. Excerpt from The Negro and His Music (1936)
* 11. Excerpt from Negro Art: Past and Present (1936)
* 12. "Negro Music Goes to Par" (1939)
* 13. "Broadway and Negro Drama" (1941)
* III. Esthetics
* 1. "Impressions of Luxor"(1923)
* 2. "Internationalism: Friend or Foe? (1925)
* 3. "Negro Youth Speaks" (1925)
* 4. "The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts" (1925)
* 5. "African Art: Classic Style" (1935)
* 6. "Negro in American Culture"(1929)
* 7. "Our Little Renaissance" (1927)
* 8. "Beauty Instead of Ashes" (1928)
* 9. "Art or Propaganda?" (1928)
* 10. "Beauty and the Provinces" (1929)
* 11. "Spiritual Truancy" (1928, on Claude McKay)
* 12. "Propaganda - or Poetry?" (1936)
* 13. "The Negro's Contribution to American Culture" (1939)
* IV. Race
*
* 1."Race Contacts and Inter-Racial Relations" (1915)
* 2. "Apropos of Africa" (1924)
* 3. "The Concept of Race as Applied to Social Culture" (1924)
* 4. "The Problem of Race Classification" (1923)
* 5. "Should the Negro be Encouraged to Cultural Equality" (1927)
* 6. "Contribution of Race to Culture" (1930)
* 7. "Slavery in the Modern Manner"(1931)
* 8. "Harlem: Dark Weather-Vane" (1936)
* 9. Foreword to Frederick Douglass's Life and Times(1940)
* 10. "Whither Race Relations? A Critical Commentary" (1944)
* 11. "The Negro in the Three Americas" (1944)
* A SPECIAL SECTION:
* When Peoples Meet: A Study in Race and Cultural Contacts (1942):
Interchapters, written by Locke.
* V. Value and Culture
*
* 1. "Oxford by A Negro Student" (1909)
* 2."The American Temperament" (1911)
* 3. "The Ethics of Culture" (1923)
* 4. "The New Negro" (1925)
* 5. "Values and Imperatives" (1935)
* 6. "Value" (1935)
* 7. "A Functional View of Value Ultimates"(1945)
* 8. "Self-Criticism: The Third Dimension of Culture" (1950)
* 9. "Frontiers of Culture" (1950)
* 10. "Values That Matter" (Review of Perry, 1954)
* 11. "Freud and Scientific Morality" (n.d.)
* VI. Democracy
*
* 1. "The Mandate System: A New Code of Empire"(1927)
* 2. "The Negro Vote and the New Deal" (1936)
* 3. "Ballad for Democracy" (1940)
* 4. "Color: Unfinished Business of Democracy" (1942)
* 5. "Democracy Faces a World Order" (1942)
* 6. "Cultural Relativism and Ideological Peace"(1942)
* 7. "Moral Imperatives for World Order" (1944)
* 8. Review of Du Bois's Color and Democracy (1945)
* 9. "Pluralism and Intellectual Democracy" (1946)
* 10. "Pluralism and Ideological Peace"(1947)
* Index