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Rodney, Mariel S.

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'The Problem of Amusement': Trouble in the New Negro Narrative.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	'The Problem of Amusement': Trouble in the New Negro Narrative./
Author:	Rodney, Mariel S.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	191 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-10A(E).
Subject:	African American studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10118767
ISBN:	9781339800967

'The Problem of Amusement': Trouble in the New Negro Narrative.
Rodney, Mariel S.

'The Problem of Amusement': Trouble in the New Negro Narrative. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 191 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2016.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

This dissertation examines black writers' appropriations of blackface minstrelsy as central to the construction of a New Negro image in the early twentieth century U.S. Examining the work of artists who were both fiction writers and pioneers of the black stage, I argue that blackface, along with other popular, late-nineteenth century performance traditions like the cakewalk and ragtime, plays a surprising and paradoxical role in the self-consciously "new" narratives that come to characterize black cultural production in the first decades of the twentieth century. Rather than rejecting minstrelsy as antithetical to the New Negro project of forging black modernity, the novelists and playwrights I consider in this study---Zora Neale Hurston, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and James Weldon Johnson---adapted blackface and other popular performance traditions in order to experiment with narrative and dramatic form. In addition to rethinking the relationship between print and performance as modes of refashioning blackness, my project also charts an alternative genealogy of black cultural production that emphasizes the New Negro Movement as a cultural formation that precedes the Harlem Renaissance and anticipates its concerns.

ISBN: 9781339800967Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122686
African American studies.

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