Il mito dell’emancipazione nera in due romanzi della Harlem Renaissance
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New Negro Movement, Harlem Renaissance, contro-mitoAbstract
Questo saggio esamina due romanzi della Harlem Renaissance: There Is Confusion (1924) di Jessie
Redmon Fauset e Infants of the Spring (1932) di Wallace Thurman. In entrambi è possibile trovare una rappresentazione contro-mitica delle speranze di emancipazione rispetto ai canoni e ai valori bianchi che la cultura afroamericana nutrì, e solo in parte realizzò, tra gli anni Venti e Trenta del Novecento.
The Myth of Black Emancipation in Two Novels of the Harlem Renaissance
This essay focuses on two novels of the Harlem Renaissance: Jessie Redmon Fauset’s There is
Confusion (1924) and Wallace Thurman’s Infants of the Spring (1932). Both novels offer a counter-
mythical representation of black artists’ hope to emancipate themselves from white canons and
values in the 1920s and 1930s.
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