Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance

Emily Bernard

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Altri dati

Formato:
Hardback
Editore:
Yale University Press
Anno di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua:
Inglese
Pagine:
368
Dimensioni:
229 X 152
Codice EAN:
9780300121995
Generi:
Biographies, Autors & Writers
Altre informazioni:
41 black-&-white illustrations
Prezzo di copertina:
$ 30,00

I contenuti

Carl Van Vechten was a white man with a passion for blackness who played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance, a black movement, come to understand itself. Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance is grounded in the dramas occasioned by the Harlem Renaissance, as it is called today, or New Negro Renaissance, as it was called in the 1920s, when it first came into being. Emily Bernard focuses on writing - the black and white of things - the articles, fiction, essays and letters that Carl Van Vechten wrote to black people and about black culture, and the writing of the black people who wrote to and about him. Above all, she is interested in the interpersonal exchanges that inspired the writing, which are ultimately far more significant than the public records would suggest. This book is a partial biography of a once very controversial figure. It is not a comprehensive history of an entire life, but rather a chronicle of one of his lives, his black life, which began in his boyhood and thrived until his death. The narrative at the core of Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance is not an attempt to answer the question of whether Van Vechten was good or bad for black people, or whether or not he hurt or helped black creative expression during the Harlem Renaissance. As Bernard writes, the book instead enlarges that question into something much richer and more nuanced: a tale about the messy realities of race, and the complicated tangle of black and white .

L'Autore

Emily Bernard is associate professor, English Department and ALANA U.S. Ethnic Studies Program, University of Vermont. She is the author of several award-winning books, including Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

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[A] complex biographical treatment of a significant figure in the explosion of black arts that was centered in Harlem. . . . Gives important contextual meaning to what exactly the Harlem Renaissance meant to black participants and what white promotion of black artists signified. --Brad Hooper, Booklist --Brad Hooper Booklist