The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism

by Brent Hayes Edwards

Book Overview

A pathbreaking work of scholarship that will reshape our understanding of the Harlem Renaissance, The Practice of Diaspora revisits black transnational culture in the 1920s and 1930s, paying particular attention to links between intellectuals in New York and their Francophone counterparts in Paris. Brent Edwards suggests that diaspora is less a historical condition than a set of practices: the claims, correspondences, and collaborations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674011031
• ISBN13: 9780674011038
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.2"