03318nam 2200661Ia 450 991081698220332120240516182442.00-8173-8616-5(CKB)3170000000046230(EBL)944067(OCoLC)796383676(SSID)ssj0000600647(PQKBManifestationID)11369010(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000600647(PQKBWorkID)10601633(PQKB)10106187(MiAaPQ)EBC944067(MdBmJHUP)muse20044(Au-PeEL)EBL944067(CaPaEBR)ebr10572676(EXLCZ)99317000000004623020120112d2012 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHearing the hurt rhetoric, aesthetics, and politics of the New Negro Movement /Eric King Watts1st ed.Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc20121 online resource (257 p.)Rhetoric, culture, and social critiqueDescription based upon print version of record.0-8173-1766-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Hearing the hurt -- Of beauty and death : W.E.B. Du Bois's Darkwater -- The last and best gift of Africa : Du Bois, Dewey, and the pragmatic production of a Black public -- Negro youth speaks : Alain Locke and the new Negro -- A lampblacked Anglo-Saxon : George Schuyler and Langston Hughes in the nation -- All art is propaganda : the politics of a new Negro aesthetics -- Paul's committed suicide : a utopist tragedy in Wallace Thurman's Infants of the spring -- You mean you don't want me, 'Rene?" : anxiety, desire, and madness in Nella Larsen's Passing.Hearing the Hurt is an examination of how the New Negro movement, also known as the Harlem Renaissance, provoked and sustained public discourse and deliberation about black culture and identity in the early twentieth century. Borrowing its title from a W. E. B. Du Bois essay, Hearing the Hurt explores the nature of rhetorical invention, performance, and mutation by focusing on the multifaceted issues brought forth in the New Negro movement, which Watts treats as a rhetorical struggle over what it means to be properly black and at the sameRhetoric, culture, and social critique.African AmericansIntellectual life20th centuryHarlem RenaissanceAfrican AmericansRace identityHistory20th centuryAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAfrican AmericansPolitics and government20th centuryAfrican AmericansIntellectual lifeHarlem Renaissance.African AmericansRace identityHistoryAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.African AmericansPolitics and government973.0496073973/.0496073Watts Eric King1963-1677449MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816982203321Hearing the hurt4044331UNINA