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Transatlantic Crossings Between Paris and New York - Pan-Africanism, Cultural Difference and the Arts in the Interwar Years (Hardcover)
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Transatlantic Crossings Between Paris and New York - Pan-Africanism, Cultural Difference and the Arts in the Interwar Years (Hardcover)
Series: American Studies - A Monograph, 133
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How was the question of black cultural difference and identity
negotiated among and between black cultural and political
organizations in Paris and Harlem? How were concepts of black
cultural difference - the idea of what distiguished black
expressive culture and what constituted the originality of a black
aesthetic - absorbed and articulated by the white artistic
avantgarde and the primitivist modernist styles and themes they
created? How was knowledge about African culture and 'African
otherness' visually represented in the discourse of French colonial
ethnography and colonial art? This study addresses the dynamics of
transatlantic cultural exchange, concretely the international
transfer and mediation of images and ideas about black culture in
two artistic metropolises - New York and Paris - in the interwar
years. These transatlantic crossings and the confluences are
analyzed within a postcolonial framework, they are considered as
responses to and as consequences of two related and hence
intersecting formations of power: racism and colonialism and their
political, social, epistemological and finally, cultural dimensions
in the United States and France. Proceeding from the historical
significance of race, this study links up the discourses of
primitivist modernism, jazz, Africanist ethnography and art, the
Harlem Renaissance and Negritude, a complex and ambivalent
connection neglected until recently in contemporary scholarship.
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