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Like Rum in the Punch: the New Negro and American culture

Abstract

The New Nègre movement was one of the major prefectures of the 20s, which had Harlem as capital as others had Paris, Berlin or Dublin. Alain Locke’s anthology has often been presented: The New Negro, An Interpretation (1925) such as the “Manifesto of Harlem Renaissance” and “the bible of negritude”, but these labels effectively restricted the scope of the movement and its flagship booklet, limiting the New Negro to a negrist movement in a New York neighbourhood, ignoring its many ramifications, in America and elsewhere, as well as the presence of several white, American or European contributors; furthermore, the involvement of its main players in the emergence of new paradigms in the humanities and social sciences is neglected, above all as a cultural movement. By cross-fertilising disciplinary approaches, recent work has managed to better restore the complexity of black internationalism, revealing the simultaneous construction of new historical communities and new artistic or scientific approaches 1. With this in mind, I hope to contribute to the programme of the Transdisciplinary Centre for the Study of the Litteratures, and in particular to the “theisation of the literary effects of domination reports” initiated by the Litterature and Community team, by rapidly presenting the new movement, his critical school, and the paradoxical way he redesigned and reconstructed the African and American identity.

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