The Making of the New Negro: Black Authorship, Masculinity, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance

Anna Pochmara; Jacques Thomassen

doi:10.1017/9789048514236

The Making of the New Negro

Black Authorship, Masculinity, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance

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Anna Pochmara, Jacques Thomassen
Edited by Lena Tsipouri, Vanja Stenius

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: January 2021
Print publication year:: 2012
Online ISBN:: 9789048514236
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048514236

Subjects:: Sociology of Gender, Sociology

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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Drawing on African American texts, archives, unpublished writings, and contemporaneous European discourses, this book highlights both the canonical figures of the New Negro Movement and African American culture such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.

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The Making of the New Negro

Black Authorship, Masculinity, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

Contents
pp 5-6

Acknowledgements
pp 7-8

Introduction
pp 9-16

Chapter 1 - Prologue: The Question of Manhood in the Booker T. Washington-W.E.B. Du Bois Debate
pp 17-54

Part 1 - Alain Locke and the New Negro
pp 55-56

Chapter 2 - Midwifery and Camaraderie: Alain Locke’s Tropes of Gender and Sexuality
pp 57-94

Chapter 3 - Arts, War, and the Brave New Negro: Gendering the Black Aesthetic
pp 95-108

Part 2 - Wallace Thurman and Niggerati Manor
pp 109-110

Chapter 4 - Gangsters and Bootblacks, Rent Parties and Railroad Flats: Wallace Thurman’s Challenges to the Black Bourgeoisie
pp 111-140

Chapter 5 - Discontents of the Black Dandy
pp 141-178

Chapter 6 - Epilogue: Richard Wright’s Interrogations of the New Negro
pp 179-216

Conclusion: Black Male Authorship, Sexuality, and the Transatlantic Connection
pp 217-220

Notes
pp 221-254

Bibliography
pp 255-266

Index
pp 267-278

Curriculum Vitae
pp 279-279

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