Hearing the hurt : rhetoric, aesthetics, and politics of the New Negro Movement / Eric King Watts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watts, Eric King, 1963-

Series:

Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.

Rhetoric, culture, and social critique

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.

African Americans.

Harlem Renaissance.

African Americans--Race identity--History--20th century.

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

African Americans--Politics and government--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hearing the Hurt is an examination of how the New Negro movement, also known as the Harlem Renaissance, provoked and sustained public discourse and deliberation about black culture and identity in the early twentieth century. Borrowing its title from a W. E. B. Du Bois essay, Hearing the Hurt explores the nature of rhetorical invention, performance, and mutation by focusing on the multifaceted issues brought forth in the New Negro movement, which Watts treats as a rhetorical struggle over what it means to be properly black and at the same

Contents:

Hearing the hurt

Of beauty and death : W.E.B. Du Bois's Darkwater

The last and best gift of Africa : Du Bois, Dewey, and the pragmatic production of a Black public

Negro youth speaks : Alain Locke and the new Negro

A lampblacked Anglo-Saxon : George Schuyler and Langston Hughes in the nation

All art is propaganda : the politics of a new Negro aesthetics

Paul's committed suicide : a utopist tragedy in Wallace Thurman's Infants of the spring

You mean you don't want me, 'Rene?" : anxiety, desire, and madness in Nella Larsen's Passing.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8616-5

OCLC:

796383676