Hearing the Hurt: Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and Politics of the New Negro Movement

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. “Hearing the Hurt” 9 2. “Of Beauty and Death”:W. E. B. Du Bois’s Darkwater 25 3. “The Last and Best Gift of Africa”:Du Bois, Dewey, and a Black Public 50 4. “NegroYouth Speaks”:Alain Locke and The New Negro 73 5. “A Lampblacked Anglo-­ Saxon”:George Schuyler and Langston Hughes in the Nation 96 6. “All Art Is Propaganda”:The Politics of a New Negro Aesthetics 117 7. “Paul’s Committed Suicide”:A Utopist Tragedy in Wallace Thurman’s Infants of the Spring 140 8. “You MeanYou Don’t Want Me, ’Rene?”:Anxiety, Desire, and Madness in Nella Larsen’s Passing 166 Postscript 190 Notes 199 Bibliography 233 Index 245 ...