From fetish to subject race, modernism, and primitivism, 1919-1935
Title:
From fetish to subject race, modernism, and primitivism, 1919-1935
Author:
Sweeney, Carole.
ISBN:
9780313085888
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Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2004.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (160 p.)
Contents:
Constructing the modern primitive -- "I'll say it's getting darker and darker in Paris" : Josephine Baker and La revue nègre -- Black woman/colonial body -- "Go to Harlem, it's sharper there" : negro : an anthology (1934) -- "A conceptual swindle" : surrealism, race and anticolonialism -- Diaspora and resistance : a 'French' black Atlantic and counterprimitivism.
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.
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