From Harlem to Paris: Black American Writers in France, 1840-1980University of Illinois Press, 1991 - 358 pages This 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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... Painter Garin , Michele Paolantonacci and the staff of the Biblio- thèque Nationale , Arnold Rampersad , Jean - Jacques Recht , Ishmael Reed , Ida and William Gardner Smith , Douglas Schneider , the staff of the Schomburg Collection of ...
... Painter Garin , Michele Paolantonacci and the staff of the Biblio- thèque Nationale , Arnold Rampersad , Jean - Jacques Recht , Ishmael Reed , Ida and William Gardner Smith , Douglas Schneider , the staff of the Schomburg Collection of ...
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... painters such as Henry Ossawa Tanner , who settled in Paris in 1891 and died there in 1937. When black American visitors saw his paintings , bought by the French government , hanging in the Musée du Luxembourg , they were convinced that ...
... painters such as Henry Ossawa Tanner , who settled in Paris in 1891 and died there in 1937. When black American visitors saw his paintings , bought by the French government , hanging in the Musée du Luxembourg , they were convinced that ...
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... painters Larry Potter , Beauford Delaney , Herb Gentry , and Walter Coleman ; and numerous colored musicians made up a veritable black colony in the fifties . Their en- counters , discussions , and confrontations brought fame to the ...
... painters Larry Potter , Beauford Delaney , Herb Gentry , and Walter Coleman ; and numerous colored musicians made up a veritable black colony in the fifties . Their en- counters , discussions , and confrontations brought fame to the ...
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... painter Beauford Delaney are mentioned only in passing as witnesses to their times or part and parcel of the writers ' world . I have chosen to em- phasize the various and shifting aspects of a vast panorama that will portray the ...
... painter Beauford Delaney are mentioned only in passing as witnesses to their times or part and parcel of the writers ' world . I have chosen to em- phasize the various and shifting aspects of a vast panorama that will portray the ...
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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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