A pathbreaking work of scholarship that will reshape our
understanding of the Harlem Renaissance, "The Practice of Diaspora"
revisits black transnational culture in the 1920s and 1930s, paying
particular attention to links between intellectuals in New York and
their Francophone counterparts in Paris. Brent Edwards suggests
that diaspora is less a historical condition than a set of
practices: the claims, correspondences, and collaborations through
which black intellectuals pursue a variety of international
alliances.
Edwards elucidates the workings of diaspora by tracking the
wealth of black transnational print culture between the world wars,
exploring the connections and exchanges among New York-based
publications (such as "Opportunity," "The Negro World," and "The
Crisis") and newspapers in Paris (such as "Les Continents," "La
Voix des Negres," and "L'Etudiant noir"). In reading a remarkably
diverse archive--the works of writers and editors from Langston
Hughes, Rene Maran, and Claude McKay to Paulette Nardal, Alain
Locke, W. E. B. Du Bois, George Padmore, and Tiemoko Garan
Kouyate--"The Practice of Diaspora" takes account of the highly
divergent ways of imagining race beyond the barriers of nation and
language. In doing so, it reveals the importance of translation,
arguing that the politics of diaspora are legible above all in
efforts at negotiating difference among populations of African
descent throughout the world.
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