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247 accommodationism, 10, 171 Addams, Jane, 94, 95 Africa: French colonialism in, 16, 202n67; and Negritude, 114, 179, 184–85; and Negritude hero, 17–18, 57, 59; and Suzanne Césaire, 24 African American literature: new era in, 176; primitive and genteel schools of, 72–73, 78, 84, 105; and racialized politics, 12–14 African American modernism: and Bonner, 69, 70, 73, 93; and Booker T. Washington, 10; and Harlem Renaissance, 74; and historical narratives, 11–12; and New Negro, 20; representational impetus of, 79; and West, 143, 144, 145 African American women: African archetype of, 152; Cooper on, 2, 9–10; domestic novels of, 54; and New Negro, 14, 15, 24; and private/public sphere, 148–51; stereotypes of, 75–76; and true black woman, 151, 156, 165, 167, 168–69, 225n43; West on, 145. See also atypical black women; New Negro Woman African diaspora: and atypical black women, 22; and black identities, 78, 114, 214n38; collective existence of, 14; and comparative American modernity, 2; and décalage, 4; and French colonialism, 16; Gilroy on, 197; and Lacascade, 27, 55, 59–61; and nature, 132; and Negritude hero, 18; portrayals of, 12, 13; and primitive school of African American literature, 72; and Suzanne Césaire, 109 African diasporic literary expression: and Lacascade , 63; and modernism’s emergence, 5; and women’s writing, 2, 5–6. See also Francophone Caribbean literature African diasporic modernists: archetypes of, 14; and Caribbean’s Creole reality, 131; conceptual differences with Anglo and European modernism, 13; and gender, 8, 10, 115, 177; and masculinist perspectives, 105; and primitivism, 62; and sociohistoric dynamics, 11; and West, 144 agency: and Condé’s En attendant le bonheur, 184, 187; Fanon’s denial of woman’s agency, 32, 183; female agents in revolutionary Haitian history, 1–2, 8–9, 200n27; and Lacascade ’s Claire-Solange, 49, 55, 66; modern agency, 8, 138; and Morrison’s Tar Baby, 190, 196; and Negritude, 19; and New Negro Woman, 150, 151–52; and West’s The Living Is Easy, 160, 164–65, 166, 168, 187 Ahearn, Edward, 44 Allen, Carol, 95 Ammons, Elizabeth, 152–53, 225n38 Anderson, Sherwood, 13 Andrade, Susan, 183 Antillanité (Caribbeanness), 109, 120, 121, 139, 177 Antoine, Régis, 36 archetypal blackness: articulations of, 14–16, 177; and Bonner, 79, 84, 94, 106, 198; and Condé’s En attendant le bonheur, 182; and gender, 152; and Lacascade’s Claire-Solange, 50; and Morrison’s Tar Baby, 188–89, 191; and New Negro, 146; perceptions of, 21–22; self-negation of, 161; and Suzanne Césaire, Index 248 Index archetypal blackness (continued) 113; and West’s The Living Is Easy, 143, 167, 169, 174. See also black identities Arnold, A. James, 111, 114 assimilation: and Condé’s En attendant le bonheur , 179, 183–84, 188; and France, 16, 29, 54, 118, 202n67, 209n83; and Lacascade’s Claire-Solange, 119; and Negritude, 20, 61; Suzanne Césaire on, 118–19, 120, 121 association: and France, 54, 202n67, 209n83 atypical black women: and African diasporic feminism, 178; and comparative American modernity, 2; and comparative black modernity , 4–5, 21–22; and Condé’s En attendant le bonheur, 196; and Maximin, 135; and Morrison’s Tar Baby, 195, 196; and New Negro Woman, 152; questions provoked by, 25; and Suzanne Césaire, 119; and West’s The Living Is Easy, 166, 174, 175 Baker, Houston A., Jr., 10, 93 Baker, Josephine, 23, 62, 211n111 Baldwin, James, 176 Balshaw, Maria, 153 Balzac, Honoré de, 44–45 Baudelaire, Charles, 5, 42–44, 50, 53, 207n50 Bazile, Dédée, 1–2, 9, 11, 25 békés. See white Creoles Benson, Rachel Pease, 143, 226n67 Bernabé, Jean, 24, 211n107 Bhabha, Homi, 186 black identities: and African diaspora, 78, 113, 122, 214n38; black woman as cultural repository of blackness, 62–63; and Bonner, 115, 198; and Bonner’s Frye Street and Environs , 95, 96–97, 99; and Bonner’s “On Being Young,” 105–6; and Bonner’s The Purple Flower, 122; and Condé’s En attendant le bonheur, 179–80, 182, 183, 184, 197; and gender, 150, 153; and Glissant, 120; and Harlem Renaissance, 105; and Lacascade ’s Claire-Solange, 46–48, 49, 50–52, 58, 59, 60, 65–67, 96, 115, 119, 155, 191, 198; and Larsen, 178; and Morrison’s Tar Baby, 191, 193–94, 197; Paulette Nardal on, 30; and Negritude, 16–19, 57, 115, 117, 120, 133, 190; and New Negro, 15–16, 78, 146; Sartre on, 114; and Suzanne Césaire...
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