From Harlem to Paris: Black American Writers in France, 1840-1980This academic study uses accounts from more than 60 African American writers--Countee Cullen, James Baldwin, Chester Himes et al.--to explain why they were more readily accepted socially in Paris than in America. Fabre (The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright) shows that French/black American affinity started in pre-Civil War New Orleans (and not, as the title suggests, in Harlem), when illegitimate mulattos with inheritances from French slave-owners sent their children to Paris to be educated. The book concludes that acceptance and appreciation of black Americans were based largely of French distaste both for white Americans, whom the French found egotistical, and for black Africans, with whom the French had a bitter "mutual colonial history." |
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... French magazines and newspapers to unearth articles and reviews dealing with ... speaking African and Caribbean students for me to teach a seminar in African ... French version of it first . It came out in 1985 under the title La Rive ...
... French magazines and newspapers to unearth articles and reviews dealing with ... speaking African and Caribbean students for me to teach a seminar in African ... French version of it first . It came out in 1985 under the title La Rive ...
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... France is aware that , even before Brown was known , the first black American literary school was created in New Orleans by free people of color or that some of the members of this French - speaking group were educated in France ? One ...
... France is aware that , even before Brown was known , the first black American literary school was created in New Orleans by free people of color or that some of the members of this French - speaking group were educated in France ? One ...
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... French - speaking press and sup- ported the Nardal sisters , whose 1930 magazine , La Revue du Monde Noir , aimed to rehabilitate black genius . Claude McKay's novel Banjo in turn influenced the French - speaking black writers . For the ...
... French - speaking press and sup- ported the Nardal sisters , whose 1930 magazine , La Revue du Monde Noir , aimed to rehabilitate black genius . Claude McKay's novel Banjo in turn influenced the French - speaking black writers . For the ...
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... French communist press at the same time the American secret services were keeping tabs on him as a former communist ... Speak Now , which takes place in Paris during May 1968. Chester Himes also ended up in Spain . He had come to France ...
... French communist press at the same time the American secret services were keeping tabs on him as a former communist ... Speak Now , which takes place in Paris during May 1968. Chester Himes also ended up in Spain . He had come to France ...
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... speaking blacks , began to spread the ideol- ogy of negritude in the United States . The rising popularity of the themes of negritude - blackness and " soul " -blotted out the French ... speaking nations . From that point on , France was ...
... speaking blacks , began to spread the ideol- ogy of negritude in the United States . The rising popularity of the themes of negritude - blackness and " soul " -blotted out the French ... speaking nations . From that point on , France was ...
Contents
The New Orleans Connection | 9 |
Early Visitors Preachers and Abolitionists | 22 |
After Emancipation The Talented Tenth in Paris | 31 |
W E B Du Bois and World War I | 46 |
Langston Hughes and Alain Locke Jazz in Montmartre and African Art | 63 |
Countee Cullen The Greatest Francophile | 76 |
Claude McKay and the Two Faces of France | 92 |
Jessie Fauset and Gwendolyn Bennett | 114 |
Chester Himess Ambivalent Triumph | 215 |
William Gardner Smith An Eternal Foreigner | 238 |
Literary Coming of Age in Paris | 257 |
A New Mood Black Power in Paris | 269 |
Visitors All or Nearly | 285 |
William Melvin Kelley and Melvin Dixon Change of Territory | 298 |
Ted Joans The Surrealist Griot | 308 |
James Emanuel A Poet in Exile | 324 |
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