Carole Sweeney

From Fetish to Subject

Race, Modernism, and Primitivism, 1919-1935

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Was modern primitivism complicit with the ideologies of colonialism, or was it a multivalent encounter with difference? Examining race and modernism through a wider and more historically contextualized study, Sweeney brings together a variety of published and new scholarship to expand the discussion on the links between modernism and primitivism. Tracing the path from Dada and Surrealism to Josephine Baker and Nancy Cunard's Negro: An Anthology, she shows the development of négrophilie from the interest in black cultural forms in the early 1920s to a more serious engagement with difference and representations in the 1930s. Considering modernism, race, and colonialism simultaneously, this work breaks from traditional boundaries of disciplines or geographic areas. Why was the primitive so popular in this era? Sweeney shows how high, popular, and mass cultural contexts constructed primitivism and how black diasporic groups in Paris challenged this construction. Included is research from original archival material from black diasporic publications in Paris, examining their challenges to primitivism in French literature and state-sponsored exoticism. The transatlantic movement of modernism and primitivism also is part of this broad comparative study.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenwood Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9780275977474
• ISBN-10: 0275977471
• Artikelnr.: 14449722

Autorenporträt

Carole Sweeney is Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. CAROLE SWEENEY is a Lecturer in French and Transnational Studies at the University of Southampton. She has written on race, colonialism, and interwar European modernism. She is currently working on a comparative literary project looking at the Francophone Americas and international avant-gardism.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Preface Introduction Constructing the
Primitive "I'll say it's getting darker and darker in Paris": Joseph Baker
and La Revue Negre Black Woman/Colonial Body "Go to Harlem, it's sharper
there": Negro: An Anthology (1934) "A Conceptual Swindle": Surrealism, Race
and Anti-Colonialism Diaspora and Resistance: A 'French' Black Atlantic and
Counter Primitivism Afterword Bibliography Index Illustrations Fig 1 Fig 2