LEADER 04156nam 22006854 450 001 9910813674903321 005 20140811103210.0 010 $a0-8223-7951-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822379515 035 $a(CKB)3710000000213968 035 $a(OCoLC)891395261 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10904255 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3007929 035 $a885793053 035 $a(OCoLC)1143749934 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse79624 035 $a(DE-B1597)554365 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822379515 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000213968 100 $a20140808d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aAuthentic Blackness $ethe folk in the New Negro renaissance /$fJ. Martin Favor 210 1$aDurham [N.C.] :$cDuke University Press,$d1999. 215 $a1 online resource (197 p.) 225 1 $aNew Americanists 311 $a0-8223-2345-1 311 $a0-8223-2311-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [171]-178) and index. 327 $a1. Discourses of Black Identity: The Elements of Authenticity -- 2. For a Mess of Pottage: James Weldon Johnson's Ex-Colored Man as (In)authentic Man -- 3. "Colored; cold. Wrong somewhere.": Jean Toomer's Cane -- 4. A Clash of Birthrights: Nella Larsen, the Feminine, and African American Identity -- 5. Color, Culture, and the Nature of Race: George S. Schuyler's Black No More -- 6. The Possibilities of Multiplicity: Community, Tradition, and African American Subject Positions 330 $aWhat constitutes ?blackness? in American culture? And who gets to define whether or not someone is truly African American? Is a struggling hip-hop artist more ?authentic? than a conservative Supreme Court justice? In Authentic Blackness J. Martin Favor looks to the New Negro Movement?also known as the Harlem Renaissance?to explore early challenges to the idea that race is a static category.Authentic Blackness looks at the place of the ?folk??those African Americans ?furthest down,? in the words of Alain Locke?and how the representation of the folk and the black middle class both spurred the New Negro Movement and became one of its most serious points of contention. Drawing on vernacular theories of African American literature from such figures as Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Houston Baker as well as theorists Judith Butler and Stuart Hall, Favor looks closely at the work of four Harlem Renaissance fiction writers: James Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, George Schuyler, and Jean Toomer. Arguing that each of these writers had, at best, an ambiguous relationship to African American folk culture, Favor demonstrates how they each sought to redress the notion of a fixed black identity. Authentic Blackness illustrates how ?race? has functioned as a type of performative discourse, a subjectivity that simultaneously builds and conceals its connections with such factors as class, gender, sexuality, and geography. 410 0$aNew Americanists. 606 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican Americans in literature 606 $aAfrican Americans$xRace identity 606 $aGroup identity in literature 606 $aHarlem Renaissance 606 $aRace in literature 607 $aHarlem (New York, N.Y.)$xIntellectual life$y20th century 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in literature. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xRace identity. 615 0$aGroup identity in literature. 615 0$aHarlem Renaissance. 615 0$aRace in literature. 676 $a810.9/896073 676 $a810.9896073 686 $aHU 1728$2rvk 700 $aFavor$b J. Martin$01681332 801 0$bNDD 801 1$bNDD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813674903321 996 $aAuthentic Blackness$94050683 997 $aUNINA