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



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Autore: Sweeney Carole Visualizza persona
Titolo: From fetish to subject [[electronic resource] ] : race, modernism, and primitivism, 1919-1935 / / Carole Sweeney Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Westport, Conn., : Praeger Publishers, 2004
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (174 p.)
Disciplina: 305.896
Soggetto topico: Black people
Primitivism
Civilization, Modern
Imperialism - Social aspects
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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
Titolo autorizzato: From fetish to subject  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-33978-8
9786612339783
0-313-08588-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910454819203321
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