Publicado por Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, 2008
ISBN 10: 9197693502 ISBN 13: 9789197693509
Librería: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Reino Unido
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Hardcover with jacket in very good condition. HCW. Used.
Publicado por Lund: Centre for Languages and Literature Lund University,, 2008
ISBN 10: 9197693502 ISBN 13: 9789197693509
Librería: David Strauss, FOLKINGHAM, Lincolnshire, Reino Unido
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. Lund Studies in English 112] xx, 354 pp. [ISBN: 978-9197693509] Hardbound in dustwrapper. A fine bright copy.
Publicado por Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University,, 2008
Librería: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japon
Miembro de asociación: ILAB
hard cover. Condición: fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: very good. xx,354pp, (9pp. List of publications). d.w. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to front board and spine. 23x15.8cm. Faint stain on d.w. Otherwise fine condition. [me0734-403973].
Publicado por Department of English, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, 2006
ISBN 10: 9197515809 ISBN 13: 9789197515801
Librería: Masalai Press, Oakland, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 199 pp., bibliography, index. light cover wear, stamp on title page. This book investigates the relationship between the "New Negro" moment of the early twentieth-century America and the Old World of Europe, as represented in James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912), Jessie Fauset's There is Confusion (1924), and Nella Larsen's Quicksand (1928). The episodes set in Europe are seen as a lens through which the role of the African-American in Western civilization can be studied. The African-American artist/protagonists are seen as cultural intermediaries, who bridge Euro-American and African-American culture, national and folk culture, high and low culture. In the nineteenth century, Europe functioned as a symbol of freedom, education and art in the African-American literary imagination. It is my contention that these notions are questioned in the novels of Johnson, Fauset and Larsen. Their performances are here understood as crucially related to the geo-cultural symbolism of Europe. Performance is considered as a vital part of African-American identity formation, tallying with the double consciousness that DuBois identified as characteristic of the African-American. It is suggested that in these novels, the trope of performance (based on double consciousness) is used to critique the notions of race and culture, whereby conceptions of racial essentialism and cultural authenticity are questioned. The novels themselves are also considered as performative acts that helped form the concept of a New Negro in the 1920s. To approach the social meaning of these novels, they can be contrasted with vernacular African-American art forms, here represented by music, such as blues, ragtime and jazz.Music, which plays an important part in all the novels, is analyzed in relation to the European-derived novel. This is a discussion in which the notion of authenticity surfaces, with regard to what constitutes a black identity and a "black text.".
Publicado por Lund, Publishers: Lund University, Centre for languages and literature, 2009., 2009
ISBN 10: 916287859X ISBN 13: 9789162878597
Librería: Ganymed - Wissenschaftliches Antiquariat, Meldorf, Alemania
Gr.-8°. 259 Pages. Original Flexible Boards. Library-Sticker on the Spine. Library-Stamp [dropped out] on Title and Cutting. Inside otherwise good Condition. No Markings in the Text! No Underlinings! No private Owner's Note! Volume bound in transparent, selfadhesive Foil. (Lundastudier i nordisk sprakvetenskap; A, 69).