Black USA and Spain (eBook, PDF)

Shared Memories in the 20th Century
Redaktion: Cornejo-Parriego, Rosalía

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Spanish and African-American communities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429595516
• Artikelnr.: 57263419

Autorenporträt

Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego received her PhD in Hispanic Literatures from Penn State University, and is currently Professor of Spanish at the University of Ottawa (Canada). She is the author of Entre mujeres. Política de la amistad y el deseo en la narrativa española contemporánea (Biblioteca Nueva, 2007) and the editor of the collection of essays, Memoria colonial e inmigración. La negritud en la España posfranquista (Bellaterra, 2007). She has also co-edited a 2010 special issue of the Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos entitled "Queer Space" and the collection of essays Un hispanismo para el siglo XXI. Ensayos de crítica cultural (Biblioteca Nueva, 2011). Her research project on women intellectuals in the press during Spain's Transition to democracy was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Part of this project is her edition of writer Ana María Moix's journalistic texts, Semblanzas e impertinencias (Laetoli, 2016). She was also editor-in-chief of the Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos (2014-2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
African Americans and Spaniards: "Caught in an Inescapable Network of
Mutuality" (Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego)
PART I:
ALL THAT JAZZ: TRANSLATION, FASCINATION AND ANXIETY
1. Reading the Harlem Renaissance in Spanish: Translation, African American
Culture, and the Spanish Avant-Garde, 1926-1936 (Evelyn Scaramella)
2. Jazz and the 1920s Spanish Flappers: "Las Sinsombrero" (María Rocío Cobo
Piñero)
3. Josephine Baker in Spain: The Ambivalent Reception of an African
American Female Superstar (Laurence Prescott and Rosalía Cornejo)
PART II:
TRANSNATIONAL READINGS OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
4. "Not Valid for Spain:" Pan-Africanism, Sanctuary, and the Spanish Civil
War (Karen Martin)
5. Salaria Kea and the Spanish Civil War: Memoirs of A Negro Nurse in
Republican Spain (1938) (Carmen Cañete Quesada)
6. From Juan, el Negro to Invisible Heroes: Two Perspectives of
African-Americans in the Spanish Civil War (Nicole D. Price)
7. "Negroes Were Not Strange to Spain": Langston Hughes and the Spanish
"Context" (Isabel Soto)
PART III:
GAZING AT EACH OTHER IN FRANCO'S SPAIN
8. Black Problems for White Travellers: The Representation of African
Americans in Early Francoist New York Travel Narratives (David
Miranda-Barreiro)
9. Arriba and the Black Civil Rights Movement: Time to Mend Fences or Time
for Revenge? (Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego)
10. Alberto Villamandos: Imagining Soul America from Barcelona: Jordi
Longarón and Friday Foster (Alberto Villamandos)
11. In Search of Chester Himes in Spain: Three Women. Three Landscapes
(María Frías)
Conclusion: Looking Ahead to the Next Chapters (Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego)
Contributors