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Inventing the new Negro : narrative, culture, and ethnography

Title
Inventing the new Negro : narrative, culture, and ethnography / Daphne Lamothe.
Author
Lamothe, Daphne Mary.
Publication
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008.

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Description
232 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Black people
  • Ethnology > United States
  • African American intellectuals
  • African American anthropologists
  • American literature > African American authors
  • African Americans in literature
  • Anthropology in literature
  • Harlem Renaissance
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-217) and index.
Contents
Ethnography and the new negro imagination -- Men of science in the post-slavery era -- Raising the veil: racial divides and ethnographic crossings in The souls of black folk -- Striking out into the interior: travel, imperialism, and ethnographic perspectives in The autobiography of an ex-colored man -- Living culture in Sterling Brown's Southern road -- Woman dancing culture: Katherine Dunham's dance/anthropology -- Narrative dissonance: conflict and contradiction in Hurston's Caribbean ethnography -- Their eyes were watching God and the Vodou intertext.
Call Number
Sc E 08-1601
ISBN
  • 0812240936 (alk. paper)
  • 9780812240931 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2008007777
OCLC
212432492
Author
Lamothe, Daphne Mary.
Title
Inventing the new Negro : narrative, culture, and ethnography / Daphne Lamothe.
Imprint
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-217) and index.
Research Call Number
Sc E 08-1601
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