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Record Nr.

UNINA9910955711403321

Autore

Sweeney Carole

Titolo

From fetish to subject : race, modernism, and primitivism, 1919-1935 / / Carole Sweeney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger Publishers, , 2004

London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), , 2024

ISBN

9798400654480

9786612339783

9781282339781

1282339788

9780313085888

0313085889

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (174 p.)

Disciplina

305.896

Soggetti

Blacks

Civilization, Modern

Imperialism - Social aspects

Primitivism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-156) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Constructing the modern primitive -- "I'll say it's getting darker and darker in Paris" : Josephine Baker and La revue nègre -- Black woman/colonial body -- "Go to Harlem, it's sharper there" : negro : an anthology (1934) -- "A conceptual swindle" : surrealism, race and anticolonialism -- Diaspora and resistance : a 'French' black Atlantic and counterprimitivism.

Sommario/riassunto

Was modern primitivism complicit with the ideologies of colonialism, or was it a multivalent encounter with difference? Examining race and modernism through a wider and more historically contextualized study, Sweeney brings together a variety of published and new scholarship to expand the discussion on the links between modernism and primitivism. Tracing the path from Dada and Surrealism to Josephine Baker and Nancy Cunard's Negro: An Anthology, she shows the



development of négrophilie from the interest in black cultural forms in the early 1920s to a more serious engagement with difference and