Black USA and Spain : shared memories in the 20th century / edited by Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cornejo-Parriego, Rosalía V., editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 59.

Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 59

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory--Spain.

Collective memory.

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

African Americans.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

Spaniards--Intellectual life--20th century.

Spaniards.

African Americans--Spain--History--20th century.

Relations.

History.

Spaniards--Intellectual life.

Spain--Relations--United States.

Spain.

United States--Relations--Spain.

United States.

International relations.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 291 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Summary:

During the 20th-century, Spaniards and African-Americans shared significant cultural memories forged by the profound impact that various artistic and historical events had on each other. Addressing three crucial periods (the Harlem Renaissance and Jazz Age, the Spanish Civil War, and Franco's dictatorship), this collection of essays explores the transnational bond and the intercultural exchanges between these two communities, using race as a fundamental critical category. The study of travelogues, memoirs, documentaries, interviews, press coverage, comics, literary works, music, and performances by iconic figures such as Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes, and Ramón Gómez de la Serna, as well as the experiences of ordinary individuals such as African American nurse Salaria Kea, invite an examination of the ambiguities and paradoxes that underlie this relationship: among them, the questionable and, at times, surprising racial representations of blacks in Spanish avant-garde texts and in the press during the years of Franco's dictatorship; African Americans very unique view of the Spanish Civil War in light of their racial identity; and the oscillation between fascination and anxiety when these two communities look at each other.

Contents:

African Americans and Spaniards: "Caught in an inescapable network of mutuality" / Rosalia Cornejo-Parriego

pt. 1: All that jazz: translation, fascination, and anxiety

Reading the Harlem Renaissance in Spanish: translation, African American culture, and the Spanish avant-garde / Evelyn Scaramella

Jazz and the 1920s Spanish flappers: "Las Sinsombrero" / M. Rocio Cobo-Piñero

Josephine Baker in Spain: the ambivalent reception of an African American female superstar / Laurence E. Prescott and Rosalia Cornejo-Parriego

pt. 2: Transnational readings of the Spanish Civil War

"Not valid for Spain": Pan-Africanism, sanctuary, and the Spanish Civil War / Karen W. Martin

Salaria Kea and the Spanish Civil War: memoirs of A Negro Nurse in Republican Spain / Carmen Cañete Quesada

From Juan, el Negro to invisible heroes: diverging perspectives on African Americans in the Spanish Civil War / Nicole D. Price

"Negroes were not strange to Spain": Langston Hughes and the Spanish "context" / Isabel Soto

pt. 3: Gazing at each other in Franco's Spain

Black problems for white travelers: the representation of African Americans in early Francoist New York travel narratives / David Miranda-Barreiro

Arriba and the black civil rights movement: time to mend fences for time for revenge? / Rosalia Cornejo-Parriego

Imagining soul from Barcelona: Jordi Longarón and Friday Foster / Albert Villamandos

In search of Chester Himes in Spain: three women, three landscapes / María Frías

Conclusion: Looking ahead to the next chapters / Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Ebook version :

ISBN:

0367182726

9780367182724

OCLC:

1083578045