Title Hearing the hurt : rhetoric, aesthetics, and politics of the New Negro Movement / Eric King Watts

Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (257 pages) Series Rhetoric, culture, and social critique Rhetoric, culture, and social critique. Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "Hearing the Hurt"; 2. "Of Beauty and Death": W.E.B. Du Bois's Darkwater; 3. "The Last and Best Gift of Africa": Du Bois, Dewey, and a Black Public; 4. "Negro Youth Speaks": Alain Locke and The New Negro; 5. "A Lampblacked Anglo-Saxon": George Schuyler and Langston Hughes in the Nation; 6. "All Art Is Propaganda": The Politics of a New Negro Aesthetics; 7. "Paul's Committed Suicide": A Utopist Tragedy in Wallace Thurman's Infants of the Spring; 8. "You Mean You Don't Want Me, 'Rene?": Anxiety, Desire, and Madness in Nella Larsen's Passing Summary Hearing the Hurt is an examination of how the New Negro movement, also k Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-243) and index Notes English Print version record Subject African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century Harlem Renaissance. African Americans -- Race identity -- History -- 20th century American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century Harlem Renaissance. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. African Americans -- Intellectual life African Americans -- Politics and government African Americans -- Race identity American literature -- African American authors Harlem Renaissance Genre/Form History Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2012000097 ISBN 9780817386160 0817386165 9780817317669 081731766X

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