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050 00 $aPS153.N5$bP63 2011
100 1 $aPochmara, Anna.
245 14 $aThe making of the new negro :$bblack authorship, masculinity, and sexuality in the Harlem renaissance /$cAnna Pochmara.
246 30 $aBlack authorship, masculinity, and sexuality in the Harlem renaissance
260 $a[Amsterdam] :$bAmsterdam University Press,$cc2011.
300 $a280 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aAmerican studies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 255-265) and index.
505 0 $aCh.1. Prologue : The question of manhood in the Booker T. Washington - W.E.B. Du Bois debate -- PART I : Alain Locke and the new negro -- Ch. 2. Midwifery and camaraderie : Alain Locke's tropes of gender and sexuality -- Ch. 3 Arts, war, and the brave new negro : gendering the black aesthetic -- -- PART 2 : Wallace Thurman and niggerati manor. Ch. 4. Gangsters and bootblacks, rent parties and railroad flats : Wallace Thurman's challenges to the black bourgeoisie -- Ch. 5. Discontents of the black dandy -- Ch. 6. Epilogue : Richard Wright's interrogations of the new negro.
520 $aThe Making of the New Negro examines black masculinity in the period of the New Negro/Harlem Renaissance, which for many decades did not attract a lot of scholarly attention, until, in the 1990s, many scholars discovered how complex, significant, and fascinating it was. Using African American published texts, American archives and unpublished writings, and contemporaneous European discourses, this book focuses both on the canonical figures of the New Negro Movement and African American culture, such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, Alain Locke, and Richard Wright, and on writers who have not received as much scholarly attention despite their significance for the movement, such as Wallace Thurman. Its perspective combines gender, sexuality, and race studies with a thorough literary analysis and historicist investigation, an approach that has not been extensively applied to analyze the New Negro Renaissance.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism.
651 0 $aUnited States$xCivilization$xAfrican influences.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life.
830 0 $aAmerican studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands)