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Record Nr.

UNISA996247985203316

Autore

Edwards Brent Hayes

Titolo

The practice of diaspora : literature, translation, and the rise of Black internationalism / / Brent Hayes Edwards

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass. : , : Harvard University Press, , 2003

ISBN

0-674-26322-7

0-674-03442-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 397 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

809/.8896/00904

Soggetti

Literature - Black authors - History and criticism

Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism

Paris (France) Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-386) and index.

Nota di contenuto

List of Illustrations Prologue 1. Variations on a Preface Translating the Word Negre The Frame of Blackness Race and the Modern Anthology Border Work A Blues Note 2. On Reciprocity: Rene Maran and Alain Locke Veritable Roman Negre A "Black Logic" of the Preface Paris, Heart of the Negro Race Encounter on the Rhine The Practice of Diaspora 3. Feminism and L'Internationalisme Noir : Paulette Nardal Gender in Black Paris Feminism and La Depeche Africaine Salons and Cercles d'Amis Black Magic Begin the Beguine 4. Vagabond Internationalism: Claude McKay's Banjo Legitime Defense : Translating Banjo Vagabond Internationalism Diaspora and the "Passable Word" The Boys in the Band Black Radicalism and the Politics of Form 5. Inventing the Black International: George Padmore and Tiemoko Garan Kouyate The Negro Worker Black Collaboration, Black Deviation Black Marxism in Translation Toward a Francophone Internationalism International African Coda: The Last Anthology Notes Acknowledgments Index

Sommario/riassunto

Brent Edwards revisits black transnational culture in the 1920's & 1930's, paying particular attention to links between intellectuals in New York & their Francophone counterparts in Paris. He argues that diaspora is less a historical condition than a set of practices.