LEADER 04883nam 2200817Ia 450 001 9910787523103321 005 20220203014102.0 010 $a0-8122-0404-2 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812204049 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418346 035 $a(OCoLC)859161682 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748808 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000949532 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11541314 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000949532 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10997895 035 $a(PQKB)11522972 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26743 035 $a(DE-B1597)449715 035 $a(OCoLC)979968294 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812204049 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442228 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748808 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682447 035 $a(iGPub)CSPLUS0003891 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442228 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418346 100 $a20080222d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aInventing the new Negro$b[electronic resource] $enarrative, culture, and ethnography /$fDaphne Lamothe 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (239 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51165-9 311 0 $a0-8122-4093-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [183]-217) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tChapter 1: Ethnography and the New Negro Imagination --$tChapter 2: Men of Science in the Post-Slavery Era --$tChapter 3: Raising the Veil: Racial Divides and Ethnographic Crossings in The Souls of Black Folk --$tChapter 4: Striking Out into the Interior: Travel, Imperialism, and Ethnographic Perspectives in The Autobiography of an Ex -Colored Man --$tChapter 5: Living Culture in Sterling Brown's Southern Road --$tChapter 6: Woman Dancing Culture: Katherine Dunham's Dance/ Anthropology --$tChapter 7: Narrative Dissonance: Conflict and Contradiction in Hurston's Caribbean Ethnography --$tChapter 8: Their Eyes Were Watching God and the Vodou Intertext --$tChapter 9: Afterword --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIt is no coincidence, Daphne Lamothe writes, that so many black writers and intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century either trained formally as ethnographers or worked as amateur collectors of folklore and folk culture. In Inventing the New Negro Lamothe explores the process by which key figures such as Zora Neale Hurston, Katherine Dunham, W. E. B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, and Sterling Brown adapted ethnography and folklore in their narratives to create a cohesive, collective, and modern black identity. Lamothe explores how these figures assumed the roles of self-reflective translators and explicators of African American and African diasporic cultures to Western, largely white audiences. Lamothe argues that New Negro writers ultimately shifted the presuppositions of both literary modernism and modernist anthropology by making their narratives as much about ways of understanding as they were about any quest for objective knowledge. In critiquing the ethnographic framework within which they worked, they confronted the classist, racist, and cultural biases of the dominant society and challenged their readers to imagine a different set of relations between the powerful and the oppressed. Inventing the New Negro combines an intellectual history of one of the most important eras of African American letters with nuanced and original readings of seminal works of literature. It will be of interest not only to Harlem Renaissance scholars but to anyone who is interested in the intersections of culture, literature, folklore, and ethnography. 606 $aBlack people 606 $aEthnology$zUnited States 606 $aAfrican American intellectuals 606 $aAfrican American anthropologists 606 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors 606 $aAfrican Americans in literature 606 $aAnthropology in literature 606 $aHarlem Renaissance 610 $aAfrican Studies. 610 $aAfrican-American Studies. 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 615 0$aBlack people. 615 0$aEthnology 615 0$aAfrican American intellectuals. 615 0$aAfrican American anthropologists. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in literature. 615 0$aAnthropology in literature. 615 0$aHarlem Renaissance. 676 $a305.896 700 $aLamothe$b Daphne Mary$01480464 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787523103321 996 $aInventing the new Negro$93697121 997 $aUNINA