The Making of the New Negro: Black Authorship, Masculinity, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance (Amsterdam University Press: American Studies) - Softcover

Pochmara, Anna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9089643192 ISBN 13: 9789089643193

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2011

Synopsis

The Making of the New Negro examines black masculinity in the period of the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s in America and was marked by an outpouring of African American art, music, theater and literature. The Harlem Renaissance, or New Negro Movement, began attracting extensive academic attention in the 1990s as scholars discovered how complex, significant, and fascinating it was.

Drawing on African American texts, archives, unpublished writings, and contemporaneous European discourses, this book highlights both the canonical figures of the New Negro Movement and African American culture such as W. E. B. Dubois, Booker T. Washington, Alain Locke, and Richard Wright, and other writers such as Wallace Thurman, who have not received as much scholarly attention despite their significant contributions to the movement. Anna Pochmara offers a striking combination of thorough literary analysis and historicist investigation in order to provide novel insights into one of the most important periods of black history in the United States.

About this title

About the Author:

Anna Pochmara is assistant professor of English studies at the University of Warsaw.

Review:

“The Making of the New Negro breaks completely new ground in our understanding of the male writers and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance. Conceptually rich and theoretically sophisticated this is a powerful and compelling portrait of the racialized politics of masculinity and non-normative sexualities of the New Negro. Anna Pochmara has written an utterly persuasive and very important book.”

(Hazel V. Carby, Yale University)

About this edition

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 9089643192
• ISBN 13: 9789089643193
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280