Black USA and Spain : shared memories in the 20th century /

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Imprint:	New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020. ©2020
Description:	xvi, 291 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Series:	Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 59 Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 59.
Subject:	Collective memory -- Spain. African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. Spaniards -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. African Americans -- Spain -- History -- 20th century. African Americans. African Americans -- Intellectual life. Collective memory. International relations. Spaniards -- Intellectual life. Spain -- Relations -- United States. United States -- Relations -- Spain. Spain. United States. History.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12534872

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Other authors / contributors:	Cornejo-Parriego, Rosalía V., editor.
ISBN:	0367182726 9780367182724 9780429594229 9780429595516 9780429592935 9780429060427
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	During the 20th-century, Spaniards and African-Americans shared significant cultural memories forged by the profound impact that various artistic and historical events had on each other. Addressing three crucial periods (the Harlem Renaissance and Jazz Age, the Spanish Civil War, and Franco's dictatorship), this collection of essays explores the transnational bond and the intercultural exchanges between these two communities, using race as a fundamental critical category. The study of travelogues, memoirs, documentaries, interviews, press coverage, comics, literary works, music, and performances by iconic figures such as Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes, and Ramón Gómez de la Serna, as well as the experiences of ordinary individuals such as African American nurse Salaria Kea, invite an examination of the ambiguities and paradoxes that underlie this relationship: among them, the questionable and, at times, surprising racial representations of blacks in Spanish avant-garde texts and in the press during the years of Franco's dictatorship; African Americans very unique view of the Spanish Civil War in light of their racial identity; and the oscillation between fascination and anxiety when these two communities look at each other.
Other form:	Ebook version : 9780429594229

Table of Contents:

African Americans and Spaniards: "Caught in an inescapable network of mutuality" / Rosalia Cornejo-Parriego
pt. 1: All that jazz: translation, fascination, and anxiety
Reading the Harlem Renaissance in Spanish: translation, African American culture, and the Spanish avant-garde / Evelyn Scaramella
Jazz and the 1920s Spanish flappers: "Las Sinsombrero" / M. Rocio Cobo-Piñero
Josephine Baker in Spain: the ambivalent reception of an African American female superstar / Laurence E. Prescott and Rosalia Cornejo-Parriego
pt. 2: Transnational readings of the Spanish Civil War
"Not valid for Spain": Pan-Africanism, sanctuary, and the Spanish Civil War / Karen W. Martin
Salaria Kea and the Spanish Civil War: memoirs of A Negro Nurse in Republican Spain / Carmen Cañete Quesada
From Juan, el Negro to invisible heroes: diverging perspectives on African Americans in the Spanish Civil War / Nicole D. Price
"Negroes were not strange to Spain": Langston Hughes and the Spanish "context" / Isabel Soto
pt. 3: Gazing at each other in Franco's Spain
Black problems for white travelers: the representation of African Americans in early Francoist New York travel narratives / David Miranda-Barreiro
Arriba and the black civil rights movement: time to mend fences for time for revenge? / Rosalia Cornejo-Parriego
Imagining soul from Barcelona: Jordi Longarón and Friday Foster / Albert Villamandos
In search of Chester Himes in Spain: three women, three landscapes / María Frías
Conclusion: Looking ahead to the next chapters / Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego.

Black USA and Spain : shared memories in the 20th century /

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