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Hearing the hurt : rhetoric, aesthetics, and politics of the New Negro Movement /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Watts, Eric King, 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2012]
Series:Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
Subjects:
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Harlem Renaissance.
African Americans > Race identity > History > 20th century.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
African Americans > Politics and government > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Hearing the hurt
  • Of beauty and death : W.E.B. Du Bois's Darkwater
  • The last and best gift of Africa : Du Bois, Dewey, and the pragmatic production of a Black public
  • Negro youth speaks : Alain Locke and the new Negro
  • A lampblacked Anglo-Saxon : George Schuyler and Langston Hughes in the nation
  • All art is propaganda : the politics of a new Negro aesthetics
  • Paul's committed suicide : a utopist tragedy in Wallace Thurman's Infants of the spring
  • You mean you don't want me, 'Rene?" : anxiety, desire, and madness in Nella Larsen's Passing.