Temples for Tomorrow: Looking Back at the Harlem Renaissance

Contributors

Contributors William Boelhower directs the American Studies Program at the University of Padua. He has translated the cultural writings of Antonio Gramsci, the work of Lucien Goldmann, and the immigrant autobiography of Carmine Biagio Iannace, The Discovery of America. Boelhower’s essays have appeared in Early American Literature, American Literary History, Journal of American Studies, MELUS, American Studies/Amerika Studien, and Contemporary Literature. His books include Immigrant Autobiography in the United States; Through a Glass Darkly: Ethnic Semiosis in American Literature; and Autobiographical Transactions in Modernist America. He recently co-edited the volume Adjusting Sites: New Essays in Italian American Studies and a bilingual edition of Frederick Douglass’s The Heroic Slave. Rae Linda Brown is associate professor of music and the Robert and Marjorie Rawlins Chair of the Music Department at the University of California, Irvine . She holds a Ph.D. in musicology from Yale University. She has completed a biography of composer Florence B. Price (forthcoming) and has been involved in editing many of Price’s scores for performance. Ensembles that have recently performed Brown’s editions of Price’s music include the American Symphony Orchestra, the Bay Area Women’s Philharmonic (Berkeley, California ), the Chicago String Ensemble, the Orchestra of the Plymouth Music Series (Minneapolis), the Savannah Symphony, the Albany (Georgia) Symphony , the Springfield (Missouri) Symphony, and the Camellia Symphony (Sacramento). Brown’s editions of Price’s music have been recorded on the Cambria and Koch labels. Her publications of Price’s music include Sonata in E Minor for Piano (1997). Price’s Symphony in E Minor and the Symphony No. 3 in C Minor will be published in Music in the United States of America, and they will be recorded by the Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra (Nanox Records, forthcoming). Brown’s articles have appeared in American Music; Black Music Research Journal; Black Music in the Harlem Renaissance: A Collection of Essays (1990); and the New Grove Dictionary of Music. Brown was music editor of the five-volume Encyclopedia of American History and Culture (1996). 379 FrançoiseCharras has taught American literature as associate professor at the University of Paris 7 for a number of years. She was also at the Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier 3, specifically in African-American and Caribbean studies. Charras has co-edited Romantisme Noir (Cahier de l’Herne) and has published several articles and translations in the field of American Gothic fiction as well as articles on F. Douglass, D. Bradley, R. Hayden, P. Marshall, T. Morrison, K. Brathwaite, G. Lamming, and C. Phillips. Randall Cherry, a freelance translator, is an instructor at the American University of Paris. He attended New York and Columbia Universities and is currently a doctoral student at the University of Paris–Denis Diderot, where he is completing his dissertation on Ethel Waters. Brent Hayes Edwards teaches in the English Department at Rutgers University. His recent publications include essays in Transition, The Jazz Cadence of American Culture, and Callaloo. He is currently completing a book titled The Practice of Diaspora. Geneviève Fabre is professor at the University Paris 7 where she is director of the Center of African-American Research. The author of books on James Agee and on African-American Theatre, she has contributed to several collective volumes and encyclopedias. Co-author of books on F. S. Fitzgerald and on American minorities, Fabre has edited or co-edited several volumes: on Hispanic literatures, on Barrio culture in the United States, on ethnicity, two volumes on “Feasts and Celebrations among Ethnic Communities,” two volumes on Toni Morrison, and a book on history and memory in African-American culture. A fellow at the W.E.B. DuBois Institute, Harvard University, The National Humanities Center, and the American Antiquarian Society, Fabre is currently working on African-American celebrative culture (1730–1880). Michel Fabre is professor emeritus at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III) and president of the Cercle d’Études Africaines-Américaines. His recent books include From Harlem to Paris: Black American Writers in France, 1840–1980 (1991); The French Critical Reception of African-American Literature : An Annotated Bibliography (1993); and The Several Lives of Chester Himes, in collaboration with Edward Margolies (1997). Michel Feith is assistant professor at the University of Nantes, France. He has spent several years abroad; his experience living in Australia, Japan, and the United States has sensitized him to issues of multiculturalism. He wrote a doctoral thesis titled “Myth and History in Chinese-American and Chicano Literature ” (1995), and...