ISBN:
0275977471
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (160 p)
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Non-Series
Series Statement:
Non-Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version From Fetish to Subject : Race, Modernism, and Primitivism, 1919-1935
DDC:
305.896
Keywords:
Imperialism Social aspects
;
Civilization, Modern
;
Blacks
;
Primitivism
;
Blacks
;
Civilization, Modern
;
Imperialism ; Social aspects
;
Primitivism
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Constructing the Modern Primitive; 2 ""I'll say it's getting darker and darker in Paris"": Josephine Baker and La Revue Nègre; 3 Black Woman/Colonial Body; 4 ""Go to Harlem, it's sharper there"": Negro: An Anthology (1934); 5 ""A Conceptual Swindle"": Surrealism, Race, and Anticolonialism; 6 Diaspora and Resistance: A French Black Atlantic and Counterprimitivism; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-156) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
