Inventing the new Negro
Daphne Mary Lamothe · 2008
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"It is no coincidence, Daphne Lamothe writes, that so many black writers and intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century either trained formally as ethnographers or worked as amateur collectors of folklore and folk culture. In Inventing the New Negro Lamothe explores the process by which key figures such as Zora Neale Hurston, Katherine Dunham, W.E.B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, and Sterling Brown adapted ethnography and folklore in their narratives to create a cohesive, collective, and modern black identity." "Lamothe explores how these figures assumed the roles of self-reflective translators and explicators of African American and African diasporic cultures to Western, largely white audiences."--Jacket.
Book details
- Year
- 2008
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 232
- ISBN
- 9780812240931
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