Hearing the Hurt: Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and Politics of the New Negro Movement - Couverture rigide

Watts, Eric

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 081731766X ISBN 13 : 9780817317669

Editeur : The University of Alabama Press, 2012

Synopsis

Hearing the Hurt is an examination of how the New Negro movement, also known as the Harlem Renaissance, provoked and sustained public discourse and deliberation about black culture and identity in the early twentieth century. Borrowing its title from a W. E. B. Du Bois essay, Hearing the Hurt explores the nature of rhetorical invention, performance, and mutation by focusing on the multifaceted issues brought forth in the New Negro movement, which Watts treats as a rhetorical struggle over what it means to be properly black and at the same time properly American. Who determines the meaning of blackness? How should African Americans fit in with American public culture? In what way should black communities and families be structured? The New Negro movement animated dynamic tension among diverse characterizations of African American civil rights, intellectual life, and well-being, and thus it provides a fascinating and complex stage on which to study how ideologies clash with each other to become accepted universally. Watts, conceptualizing the artistic culture of the time as directly affected by the New Negro public discourse, maps this rhetorical struggle onto the realm of aesthetics and discusses some key incarnations of New Negro rhetoric in select speeches, essays, and novels.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Eric King Watts is an associate professor in the department of communication studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Alabama Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 081731766X
• ISBN 13: 9780817317669
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
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