From Harlem to Paris: Black American Writers in France, 1840-1980University of Illinois Press, 1991 - 358 páginas This academic study uses accounts from more than 60 African American writers--Countee Cullen, James Baldwin, Chester Himes et al.--to explain why they were more readily accepted socially in Paris than in America. Fabre (The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright) shows that French/black American affinity started in pre-Civil War New Orleans (and not, as the title suggests, in Harlem), when illegitimate mulattos with inheritances from French slave-owners sent their children to Paris to be educated. The book concludes that acceptance and appreciation of black Americans were based largely of French distaste both for white Americans, whom the French found egotistical, and for black Africans, with whom the French had a bitter "mutual colonial history." |
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... United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 C P 5 4 3 2 This book is printed on acid - free paper . Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Fabre , Michel . From Harlem to Paris : Black American writers in France , 1840-1980 ...
... United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 C P 5 4 3 2 This book is printed on acid - free paper . Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Fabre , Michel . From Harlem to Paris : Black American writers in France , 1840-1980 ...
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... United States , I launched into research for this project , interviewing writers like Arna Bontemps and John Matheus and exploring the resources of many libraries and manuscript repositories . Thanks to the James Weldon Johnson ...
... United States , I launched into research for this project , interviewing writers like Arna Bontemps and John Matheus and exploring the resources of many libraries and manuscript repositories . Thanks to the James Weldon Johnson ...
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... out in 1985 under the title La Rive Noire and enjoyed a very favorable reception in France . Although it could have been translated and published at once in the United States , I was not satisfied with the book as it was X Preface.
... out in 1985 under the title La Rive Noire and enjoyed a very favorable reception in France . Although it could have been translated and published at once in the United States , I was not satisfied with the book as it was X Preface.
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... United States , where it was considered lowbrow and vulgar . The flowering of the cultural renaissance in Harlem and the influence of African art , which the avant - garde had finally discovered , contributed indirectly to Josephine ...
... United States , where it was considered lowbrow and vulgar . The flowering of the cultural renaissance in Harlem and the influence of African art , which the avant - garde had finally discovered , contributed indirectly to Josephine ...
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... United States , but as a master of the thriller . He was published in Marcel Duhamel's Série Noire de- tective series . France at least let him live , he says , while giving highly contradictory impressions of it in his autobiography ...
... United States , but as a master of the thriller . He was published in Marcel Duhamel's Série Noire de- tective series . France at least let him live , he says , while giving highly contradictory impressions of it in his autobiography ...
Índice
The New Orleans Connection | 9 |
Early Visitors Preachers and Abolitionists | 22 |
After Emancipation The Talented Tenth in Paris | 31 |
W E B Du Bois and World War I | 46 |
Langston Hughes and Alain Locke Jazz in Montmartre and African Art | 63 |
Countee Cullen The Greatest Francophile | 76 |
Claude McKay and the Two Faces of France | 92 |
Jessie Fauset and Gwendolyn Bennett | 114 |
Chester Himess Ambivalent Triumph | 215 |
William Gardner Smith An Eternal Foreigner | 238 |
Literary Coming of Age in Paris | 257 |
A New Mood Black Power in Paris | 269 |
Visitors All or Nearly | 285 |
William Melvin Kelley and Melvin Dixon Change of Territory | 298 |
Ted Joans The Surrealist Griot | 308 |
James Emanuel A Poet in Exile | 324 |
And Others Too | 129 |
From the New Negro to Negritude Encounters in the Latin Quarter | 146 |
Making It in Postwar France | 160 |
Richard Wright An Intellectual in Exile | 175 |
James Baldwin in Paris Love and SelfDiscovery | 195 |
Conclusion | 337 |
Bibliography | 345 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todo
From Harlem to Paris: Black American Writers in France, 1840-1980 Michel Fabre Vista de fragmentos - 1991 |
From Harlem to Paris: Black American Writers in France, 1840-1980 Michel Fabre Vista de fragmentos - 1991 |
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Referencias a este libro
Filles de solitude: essai sur l'identité antillaise dans les (auto ... Kathleen Gyssels Vista de fragmentos - 1996 |
Black Writers Abroad: A Study of Black American Writers in Europe and Africa Robert Coles Vista previa restringida - 1999 |