Hearing the Hurt

Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and Politics of the New Negro Movement

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Communication
Cover of the book Hearing the Hurt by Eric King Watts, University of Alabama Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Eric King Watts ISBN: 9780817386160
Publisher: University of Alabama Press Publication: July 15, 2012
Imprint: University Alabama Press Language: English
Author: Eric King Watts
ISBN: 9780817386160
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Publication: July 15, 2012
Imprint: University Alabama Press
Language: English

Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4

Hearing the Hurt is an examination of how the New Negro movement, also known as the Harlem Renaissance, provoked and sustained public discourse and deliberation about black culture and identity in the early twentieth century.

 

Borrowing its title from a W. E. B. Du Bois essay, Hearing the Hurt explores the nature of rhetorical invention, performance, and mutation by focusing on the multifaceted issues brought forth in the New Negro movement, which Watts treats as a rhetorical struggle over what it means to be properly black and at the same time properly American.

 

Who determines the meaning of blackness? How should African Americans fit in with American public culture? In what way should black communities and families be structured? The New Negro movement animated dynamic tension among diverse characterizations of African American civil rights, intellectual life, and well-being, and thus it provides a fascinating and complex stage on which to study how ideologies clash with each other to become accepted universally.

 

Watts, conceptualizing the artistic culture of the time as directly affected by the New Negro public discourse, maps this rhetorical struggle onto the realm of aesthetics and discusses some key incarnations of New Negro rhetoric in select speeches, essays, and novels.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4

Hearing the Hurt is an examination of how the New Negro movement, also known as the Harlem Renaissance, provoked and sustained public discourse and deliberation about black culture and identity in the early twentieth century.

 

Borrowing its title from a W. E. B. Du Bois essay, Hearing the Hurt explores the nature of rhetorical invention, performance, and mutation by focusing on the multifaceted issues brought forth in the New Negro movement, which Watts treats as a rhetorical struggle over what it means to be properly black and at the same time properly American.

 

Who determines the meaning of blackness? How should African Americans fit in with American public culture? In what way should black communities and families be structured? The New Negro movement animated dynamic tension among diverse characterizations of African American civil rights, intellectual life, and well-being, and thus it provides a fascinating and complex stage on which to study how ideologies clash with each other to become accepted universally.

 

Watts, conceptualizing the artistic culture of the time as directly affected by the New Negro public discourse, maps this rhetorical struggle onto the realm of aesthetics and discusses some key incarnations of New Negro rhetoric in select speeches, essays, and novels.

More books from University of Alabama Press

Cover of the book Walt Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Women Reformers by Eric King Watts
Cover of the book Archaeology and Geoinformatics by Eric King Watts
Cover of the book American Science in the Age of Jackson by Eric King Watts
Cover of the book Blood of Mugwump by Eric King Watts
Cover of the book The Voyage of the CSS Shenandoah by Eric King Watts
Cover of the book Trial Films on Trial by Eric King Watts
Cover of the book Quince Duncan by Eric King Watts
Cover of the book Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs by Eric King Watts
Cover of the book John Archibald Campbell by Eric King Watts
Cover of the book United States–Latin American Relations, 1850–1903 by Eric King Watts
Cover of the book Realism and the American Dramatic Tradition by Eric King Watts
Cover of the book Paths to a Middle Ground by Eric King Watts
Cover of the book The Size of the Universe by Eric King Watts
Cover of the book Montgomery in the Good War by Eric King Watts
Cover of the book Chez Charlotte and Emily by Eric King Watts
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy