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Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem - Hardcover, by Bernard Emily - Very Good
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- Condition
- Type
- Textbook
- ISBN
- 9780300121995
- Book Title
- Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance : a Portrait in Black and White
- Item Length
- 9.4 in
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, History, Social Science
- Topic
- American / African American, Cultural Heritage, United States / 20th Century, Literary, African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Sociology / Urban
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Item Weight
- 23.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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Carl Van Vechten was a white man with a passion for blackness who played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance, a black movement, come to understand itself. Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance is grounded in the dramas occasioned by the Harlem Renaissance, as it is called today, or New Negro Renaissance, as it was called in the 1920s, when it first came into being. Emily Bernard focuses on writing-the black and white of things-the articles, fiction, essays, and letters that Carl Van Vechten wrote to black people and about black culture, and the writing of the black people who wrote to and about him. Above all, she is interested in the interpersonal exchanges that inspired the writing, which are ultimately far more significant than the public records would suggest. This book is a partial biography of a once controversial figure. It is not a comprehensive history of an entire life, but rather a chronicle of one of his lives, his black life, which began in his boyhood and thrived until his death. The narrative at the core of Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance is not an attempt to answer the question of whether Van Vechten was good or bad for black people, or whether or not he hurt or helped black creative expression during the Harlem Renaissance. As Bernard writes, the book instead "enlarges that question into something much richer and more nuanced: a tale about the messy realities of race, and the complicated tangle of black and white."
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300121997
ISBN-13
9780300121995
eBay Product ID (ePID)
111179153
Product Key Features
Book Title
Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance : a Portrait in Black and White
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
American / African American, Cultural Heritage, United States / 20th Century, Literary, African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2012
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Item Weight
23.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3543.A653z59 2012
Reviews
"Emily Bernard moves to the front of the line of scholars who have re-cast the Harlem Renaissance and opened up questions about the complexity of cross-racial desire and obsession as it plays out on the cultural front. An intrepid scholar, Bernard dives right into the waters of racial misunderstanding, political incorrectness, and the unfettered love that drove Van Vechten''s career. This is a passionate, dead-serious exploration of and meditation on nothing less than negrophilia and its cultural yield. This book is a gem, and it will be influential for many years to come."-Elizabeth Alexander, author of The Black Interior, " Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance convincingly captures the era and the colorful personalities who punctuated it, including Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston and Countee Cullen, all of whom Van Vechten befriended and promoted."-Sam Roberts, New York Times, "Carl Van Vechten-a troubling, essential figure in the history of American modernism, not to mention the history of race-has found his best critic and champion in Emily Bernard, who takes the issues the writer and photographer raised in his work and examines them through the lens of a distinctly twenty-first century perspicacity."-Hilton Als, author of The Women, "[A] complex biographical treatment of a significant figure in the explosion of black arts that was centered in Harlem. . . in the 1920s and 1930s. . . Gives important contextual meaning to what exactly the Harlem Renaissance meant to black participants and what white promotion of black artists signified."-Brad Hooper, Booklist, "[A] landmark study of Carl Van Vechten . . . . A rich and dramatic story that explores the ''complicated tangle of black and white,'' as well as the proclivities of a provocative and inarguably significant player in one of America''s most creative movements."- Publishers Weekly, "[A] landmark study of Carl Van Vechten . . . . A rich and dramatic story that explores the 'complicated tangle of black and white,' as well as the proclivities of a provocative and inarguably significant player in one of America's most creative movements."- Publishers Weekly, " Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance , as much the biography of a book as of the man who wrote it, is an admirably sober excursion into a field in which intoxicated opinion is rife."-James Campbell, Wall Street Journal, "A deeply absorbing and elegantly evoked biography of a man and his era."-Lynell George, Los Angeles Times, "Bernard's portrait of the writer's Harlem Renaissance relationships provides a more nuanced picture of him and the intense debates he occasioned as part of his role as a patron and artist in the 1920s. Bernard brings to life the conflicts of Van Vechten's collaborations and creations, and also the passionate debates about art and life that consumed him and his literary counterparts."-D.E. Magill, Choice, "A thoughtful reconsideration of Van Vechten's career as both a writer and an effective champion of Negro writers."-Kalefa Sanneh, New Yorker, "Emily Bernard moves to the front of the line of scholars who have re-cast the Harlem Renaissance and opened up questions about the complexity of cross-racial desire and obsession as it plays out on the cultural front. An intrepid scholar, Bernard dives right into the waters of racial misunderstanding, political incorrectness, and the unfettered love that drove Van Vechten's career. This is a passionate, dead-serious exploration of and meditation on nothing less than negrophilia and its cultural yield. This book is a gem, and it will be influential for many years to come."-Elizabeth Alexander, author of The Black Interior, "In this absorbing and evocative book, Emily Bernard has restored Carl Van Vechten to his rightful place in the thick of the Harlem Renaissance. And in so doing she has created a wonderful mosaic of relationships that brings the period before us in all its rich complexity and allows us to see both blackness and whiteness with new eyes."-Rachel Cohen, author of A Chance Meeting, "A deeply absorbing and elegantly evoked biography of a man and his era."--Lynell George, Los Angeles Times, "[Van Vechten] was undoubtedly one of the midwives of the Harlem Renaissance, which raised the vexing question of the effects of white patronage on that proud but short-lived cultural movement. Emily Bernard's penetrating book confronts this issue from every conceivable angle while writing the largely forgotten Van Vechten back into the story. Bernard's book [is] obviously a labor of love."-Morris Dickstein, Times Literary Supplement, "Bernard. . . who has devoted years to the study of the Harlem Renaissance, delivers a semester's worth of knowledge in a smooth, edifying narrative. . . Van Vechten became a conduit for works of the men and women he met in Harlem, at his well-attended parties and through his work as a dance, theater and music critic. . . . Bernard ably brings him to life."- Kirkus Reviews, "Deeply informed, shrewd, and convincing, Emily Bernard's portrait of Carl Van Vechten illuminates his colorful life as well as some of the more shadowy but essential issues involving art, society, and race relations in America."-Arnold Rampersad, author of The Life of Langston Hughes
Copyright Date
2012
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2011-034190
Dewey Decimal
813/.52
Dewey Edition
23
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