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Esta obra reúne once ensayos originales acerca de la función de las imágenes en los procesos de formación de la nación en América Latina, incluyendo contribuciones de especialistas de Europa, Estados Unidos, América Latina e Israel. Inspirados por el reciente "giro pictorial" en las ciencias sociales, estos textos no sólo transcienden los límites nacionales, sino también los disciplinares, combinando acercamientos de la historia, la literatura, los estudios culturales y las ciencias políticas. En general, los autores indagan sobre la función que han desempeñado las imágenes de lo propio y de lo ajeno -como parte de discursos nacionalistas- dentro de exposiciones y museos, en la prensa, en el arte, en la fotografía, en el cine, así como en forma de monumentos y estatuas, es decir en su función de "imágenes públicas".

Arts, Latin American. --- Arte latinoamericano. --- National characteristics in art. --- Características nacionales en el arte. --- Latin America --- América Latina --- History. --- Historia. --- Latin American arts --- History of the Americas

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"With the publication of Cane in 1923 Jean Toomer emerged one of the most widely read, and now one of the most widely studied, authors of the Harlem Renaissance. Honored as a bold literary experimenter and as an eyewitness reporter of the abuses and outrages of Jim Crow Georgia, Toomer himself wished to evade being considered an African American writer and instead sought appreciation as a poet and idealist. While those qualities of his work have attracted significant critical attention, and his biography has been explored to illuminate them, his interest in class struggle and revolution have been eclipsed. In a series of articles that culminate in this book, Barbara Foley brings those aspects back into the light and into close focus, showing how often and how deeply he thought about them and how fierce and enduring they were. Without making the error of ignoring Toomer's artistic accomplishments, Foley shows how much history surrounds and informs Toomer's work, especially in Cane. In his journals from the time when he was writing Cane, Toomer wrote, "It is a symptom of weakness when one must bring God, equality, liberty, and justice to one's support. It follows that the working classes, particularly the dark-skinned among the working classes, are still weak. . . . If the Negro, consolidated on race rather than class interests, ever become strong enough to demand the exercise of Power, a race war will occur in America." This book examines Toomer's sense of "equality, liberty, and justice," of "nation," the South," and "America," to reveal elements in his writings that ignite them"-- "The 1923 publication of Cane established Jean Toomer as a modernist master and one of the key literary figures of the emerging Harlem Renaissance. Though critics and biographers alike have praised his artistic experimentation and unflinching eyewitness portraits of Jim Crow violence, few seem to recognize how much Toomer's interest in class struggle, catalyzed by the Russian Revolution and the post-World War One radical upsurge, situate his masterwork in its immediate historical context. In Jean Toomer: Race, Repression, and Revolution, Barbara Foley explores Toomer's political and intellectual connections with socialism, the New Negro movement, and the project of Young America. Examining his rarely scrutinized early creative and journalistic writings, as well as unpublished versions of his autobiography, she recreates the complex and contradictory consciousness that produced Cane. Foley's discussion of political repression runs parallel with a portrait of repression on a personal level. Examining family secrets heretofore unexplored in Toomer scholarship, she traces their sporadic surfacing in Cane. Toomer's text, she argues, exhibits a political unconscious that is at once public and private. "--

Harlem Renaissance --- Modernism (Literature) --- New Negro Movement --- Renaissance, Harlem --- African American arts --- American literature --- African American authors --- Toomer, Jean, --- Toomer, N. Jean, --- Pinchback, Eugene, --- Pinchback, Nathan Eugene, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Toomer, Jean --- Criticism and interpretation --- United States --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. --- Harlem Renaissance.

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African Americans in literature. --- Black nationalism --- Black Arts movement. --- African Americans --- American literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- African American arts --- African American literature (English) --- Black literature (American) --- Negro literature --- History --- Intellectual life --- African American authors. --- Afro-American authors --- Negro authors

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Was Donald Glover really what he seemed--a handsome, dedicated, and clever African-American star of the Harlem Renaissance, whose looks made him the "quarry" of a variety of women? Or could the secrets of his birth change his destiny entirely? Focusing on the culture of Harlem in the 1920s, Charles Chesnutt's final novel dramatizes the political and aesthetic life of the exciting period we now know as the Harlem Renaissance. Mixing fact and fiction, and real and imagined characters, The Quarry is peopled with so many figures of the time--including Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, and Marcus Garvey--that it constitutes a virtual guide to this inspiring period in American history. Protagonist Glover is a light-skinned man whose adoptive black parents are determined that he become a leader of the black people. Moving from Ohio to Tennessee, from rural Kentucky to Harlem, his story depicts not only his conflicted relationship to his heritage but also the situation of a variety of black people struggling to escape prejudice and to take advantage of new opportunities.Although he was the first African-American writer of fiction to gain acceptance by America's white literary establishment, Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) has been eclipsed in popularity by other writers who later rose to prominence during the Harlem Renaissance. Recently, this pathbreaking American writer has been receiving an increasing amount of attention. Two of his novels, Paul Marchand, F.M.C. (completed in 1921) and The Quarry (completed in 1928), were considered too incendiary to be published during Chesnutt's lifetime. Their publication now provides us not only the opportunity to read these two books previously missing from Chesnutt's oeuvre but also the chance to appreciate better the intellectual progress of this literary pioneer. Chesnutt was the author of many other works, including The Conjure Woman & Other Conjure Tales, The House Behind the Cedars, The Marrow Tradition, and Mandy Oxendine. Princeton University Press recently published To Be an Author: Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1889-1905 (edited by Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., and Robert C. Leitz, III).Originally published in 1999.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Harlem Renaissance --- Adoptees --- Group identity --- African Americans --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Adopted persons --- Adult adoptees --- Adoption --- New Negro Movement --- Renaissance, Harlem --- African American arts --- American literature --- Race identity --- African American authors --- Black people --- Interracial adoption