The practice of diaspora : literature, translation, and the rise of Black internationalism / Brent Hayes Edwards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edwards, Brent Hayes.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Black authors--History and criticism.

Literature.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Paris (France)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Paris (France).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 397 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Literature, translation, and the rise of Black internationalism

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.

Summary:

Brent Edwards revisits black transnational culture in the 1920's & 1930's, paying particular attention to links between intellectuals in New York & their Francophone counterparts in Paris. He argues that diaspora is less a historical condition than a set of practices. A pathbreaking work of scholarship that will reshape our understanding of the Harlem Renaissance, The Practice of Diaspora revisits black transnational culture in the 1920's and 1930's, paying particular attention to links between intellectuals in New York and their Francophone counterparts in Paris. Brent Edwards suggests that diaspora is less a historical condition than a set of practices: the claims, correspondences, and collaborations through which black intellectuals pursue a variety of international alliances. Edwards elucidates the workings of diaspora by tracking the wealth of black transnational print culture between the world wars, exploring the connections and exchanges among New York-based publications (such as Opportunity , The Negro World , and The Crisis ) and newspapers in Paris (such as Les Continents , La Voix des Negres , and L'Etudiant noir ). In reading a remarkably diverse archive--the works of writers and editors from Langston Hughes, Rene Maran, and Claude McKay to Paulette Nardal, Alain Locke, W. E. B. Du Bois, George Padmore, and Tiemoko Garan Kouyate-- The Practice of Diaspora takes account of the highly divergent ways of imagining race beyond the barriers of nation and language. In doing so, it reveals the importance of translation, arguing that the politics of diaspora are legible above all in efforts at negotiating difference among populations of African descent throughout the world.

Contents:

List of Illustrations Prologue 1. Variations on a Preface Translating the Word Negre The Frame of Blackness Race and the Modern Anthology Border Work A Blues Note 2. On Reciprocity: Rene Maran and Alain Locke Veritable Roman Negre A "Black Logic" of the Preface Paris, Heart of the Negro Race Encounter on the Rhine The Practice of Diaspora 3. Feminism and L'Internationalisme Noir : Paulette Nardal Gender in Black Paris Feminism and La Depeche Africaine Salons and Cercles d'Amis Black Magic Begin the Beguine 4. Vagabond Internationalism: Claude McKay's Banjo Legitime Defense : Translating Banjo Vagabond Internationalism Diaspora and the "Passable Word" The Boys in the Band Black Radicalism and the Politics of Form 5. Inventing the Black International: George Padmore and Tiemoko Garan Kouyate The Negro Worker Black Collaboration, Black Deviation Black Marxism in Translation Toward a Francophone Internationalism International African Coda: The Last Anthology Notes Acknowledgments Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-386) and index.

ISBN:

9780674263222

0674263227

9780674034426

0674034422

OCLC:

923116636