Rachel Farebrother

The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance

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Produktbeschreibung

Rachel Farebrother explores the recurrent collage aesthetic of the Harlem Renaissance in texts by Alain Locke, Zora Neale Hurston and Jean Toomer, in light of early twentieth-century discourses of anthropology, cultural nationalism and Euro-American modernism. Rich and wide-ranging in its attention to neglected transatlantic connections and to the particularities of African American experience, Farebrother's study offers us a fresh lens through which to view this crucial moment in American culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780754661986
• ISBN-10: 0754661989
• Artikelnr.: 45154510

Autorenporträt

Rachel Farebrother is lecturer in American Studies at the University of Swansea, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Boasian anthropolgy and the Harlem renaissance
'[F]lung out in a jagged, uneven but progressive pattern': 'culture citizenship' in The New Negro
'[A]dventuring through the pieces of a still unorganized mosaic': Jean Toomer's collage aesthetic in Cane
'Think[ing] in hieroglyphics': Zora Neale Hurston's cross-cultural aesthetic
Reading Zora Neale Hurston's textual synthesis in Jonah's Gourd Vine and Moses, Man of the Mountain
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.