Hearing the hurt
Subtitle: rhetoric, aesthetics, and politics of the New Negro Movement
By: Eric King Watts
Series: Rhetoric, culture, and social critique
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780817317669; 9780817386160
Subjects: Politics and government; Race identity; Intellectual life; History and criticism; American literature; Harlem Renaissance; African American authors; African Americans; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Hearing the hurt; title: Of beauty and death : W.E.B. Du Bois's Darkwater; title: The last and best gift of Africa : Du Bois, Dewey, and the pragmatic production of a Black public; title: Negro youth speaks : Alain Locke and the new Negro; title: A lampblacked Anglo-Saxon : George Schuyler and Langston Hughes in the nation; title: All art is propaganda : the politics of a new Negro aesthetics; title: Paul's committed suicide : a utopist tragedy in Wallace Thurman's Infants of the spring; title: You mean you don't want me, 'Rene?" : anxiety, desire, and madness in Nella Larsen's Passing.