From Harlem to Paris: Black American Writers in France, 1840-1980This academic study uses accounts from more than 60 African American writers--Countee Cullen, James Baldwin, Chester Himes et al.--to explain why they were more readily accepted socially in Paris than in America. Fabre (The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright) shows that French/black American affinity started in pre-Civil War New Orleans (and not, as the title suggests, in Harlem), when illegitimate mulattos with inheritances from French slave-owners sent their children to Paris to be educated. The book concludes that acceptance and appreciation of black Americans were based largely of French distaste both for white Americans, whom the French found egotistical, and for black Africans, with whom the French had a bitter "mutual colonial history." |
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From Harlem to Paris: Black American writers in France, 1840-1980
معاينة المستخدمين - Not Available - Book VerdictThis book breaks new ground in social and literary history. Fabre re-creates an important moment of African American literary history and sheds new light on the historical origin of the atmosphere ... قراءة التقييم بأكمله
المحتوى
The New Orleans Connection | 9 |
Early Visitors Preachers and Abolitionists | 22 |
After Emancipation The Talented Tenth in Paris | 31 |
W E B Du Bois and World War I | 46 |
Langston Hughes and Alain Locke Jazz in Montmartre and African Art | 63 |
Countee Cullen The Greatest Francophile | 76 |
Claude McKay and the Two Faces of France | 92 |
Jessie Fauset and Gwendolyn Bennett | 114 |
Chester Himess Ambivalent Triumph | 215 |
William Gardner Smith An Eternal Foreigner | 238 |
Literary Coming of Age in Paris | 257 |
A New Mood Black Power in Paris | 269 |
Visitors All or Nearly | 285 |
William Melvin Kelley and Melvin Dixon Change of Territory | 298 |
Ted Joans The Surrealist Griot | 308 |
James Emanuel A Poet in Exile | 324 |
And Others Too | 129 |
From the New Negro to Negritude Encounters in the Latin Quarter | 146 |
Making It in Postwar France | 160 |
Richard Wright An Intellectual in Exile | 175 |
James Baldwin in Paris Love and SelfDiscovery | 195 |
Conclusion | 337 |
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معلومات المراجع
| العنوان | From Harlem to Paris: Black American Writers in France, 1840-1980 |
| المؤلف | Michel Fabre |
| الإصدار | مزود بصور توضيحية, معاد إصداره |
| الناشر | University of Illinois Press, 1993 |
| رقم ISBN (الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب) | 0252063643, 9780252063640 |
| عدد الصفحات | 358 من الصفحات |
| تصدير الاقتباس | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |