Sieglinde Lemke
Biographic Data
| ID | 3613009 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sieglinde Lemke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sieglinde |
| FAMILY NAME | Lemke |
| SIGNATURE | LEMKE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Freiburg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Class Divisions in Serial Television
This book brings the emergent interest in social class and inequality to the field of television studies. It reveals how the new visibility of class matters in serial television functions aesthetically and examines the cultural class politics articulated in these programmes. This ground-breaking volume argues that reality and quality TV’s intricate politics of class entices viewers not only to grapple with previously invisible socio-economic real…
Inequality, Poverty and Precarity in Contemporary American Culture
This book analyzes the discourse generated by pundits, politicians, and artists to examine how poverty and the income gap is framed through specific modes of representation. Set against the dichotomy
“Of the Coming of John”
On June 22, 1903, George White of Wilmington, Delaware, was at the workhouse while the pastor of Olivet Presbyterian Church was giving a sermon. Suddenly, several members of the community broke in to abduct Mr. White, who was actually a black man accused of rape and murder. He was tied to a stake, burned, and riddled with bullets. When the Chamber of Commerce of Wilmington met a few days later, it refused to pass a resolution condemning the lynch…
The Cambridge Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois was the pre-eminent African American intellectual of the twentieth century. As a pioneering historian, sociologist and civil rights activist, and as a novelist and autobiographer, he made the problem of race central to an understanding of the United States within both national and transnational contexts; his masterwork The Souls of Black Folk (1903) is today among the most widely read and most often quoted works of American liter…
Primitivist Modernism: Black Culture and the Origins of Transatlantic Modernism
Berlin and Boundaries: Sollen Versus Geschehen
Research Article| August 01 2000 Berlin and Boundaries: sollen versus geschehen Sieglinde Lemke Sieglinde Lemke Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2000) 27 (3): 45–78. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-27-3-45 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citati…
Dedication
Introduction: Was Modernism Passing?
This book is concerned with exploring the formal connections between “white” and “black” cultures in early-twentieth-century art and literature. Instead of juxtaposing white modernism with a “black counter-modernism;’ as Houston Baker does in his important study, Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, I have sought to trace how both are inextricably interrelated. Nor is this book an attempt to define a pure, black aesthetics, as is Richard J. Powe…
The Black Body
The Negroes are conquering Paris. They are conquering Berlin. They have already filled the whole continent with their howls, with their laughter The Revue Negre, which is rousing the tired public in the Theatre des Champs-Elysees to thrills and madness as otherwise only a boxing match can do is symbolic.
Picasso’s “dusty manikins”
Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon is a striking composition of five nude figures, only a few of which are obviously feminine (figure 2.1). The figure in the center has her arms lifted and crossed above her head; her dark eyes stare straight ahead with a blank expression. She and the figure immediately to her left flaunt their nudity, but the leftmost figure is a more staid observer of the scene. The fruit dish in the foreground, filled wi…
Whiteman’s Jazz
Some may start with an enthusiasm for music of the jazz type, but they cannot go far there, for jazz is peculiarly of an inbred, feeble-stock race, incapable of development. In any case, the people for whom it is meant could not understand it if it did develop. Jazz is sterile. It is all right for fun, or as a mild anodyne, like tobacco. But its lack of rhythmical variety (necessitated by its special purpose), its brevity, its repetitiveness and …
The Black Book
It is an insult to the great Caucasian race, the father of all the arts and sciences, to compare it to that black and kinky race which lived in a state of black and ignorant savagery until the white race seized it and lifted it to its present position. The African with his love of color, warmth, rhythm and the whole sensuous life, might, if emotionally liberated, do interesting things to a “Nordic” stock, so bustling and busy, so preoccupied with…
Studies In Black And White
In Hemingway’s novel The Garden of Eden, the blonde protagonist Catherine tries to make herself darker and darker to attract her husband sexually and to distinguish herself from other white people. This kind of Africanism, Toni Morrison argues in Playing in the Dark, conflates blackness with sex, chaos, and madness. But the underlying function of imagining an “Africanist other” is really, according to Morrison, “an extraordinary meditation on the…
Conclusion: Modernism Reconsidered
Subject US Cultural History American Music African American History Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Title Pages
Primitivist Modernism: Black Culture and the Origins of Transatlantic Modernism
This book offers a bold new account of modernism. By focusing on cubism, primitivist-modernism, jazz, and Josephine Baker’s performance, Lemke demonstrates that black art exerted a crucial if masked presence in both Euro-American high art and popular culture. American and European modernism owe much of their symbolic capital to the black cultural other. Black American artists, for their part, also relied on Euro-American American models. By reapp…
Berlin and Boundaries: Sollen Versus Geschehen
Research Article| August 01 2000 Berlin and Boundaries: sollen versus geschehen Sieglinde Lemke Sieglinde Lemke Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2000) 27 (3): 45–78. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-27-3-45 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citati…
Dedication
Introduction: Was Modernism Passing?
This book is concerned with exploring the formal connections between “white” and “black” cultures in early-twentieth-century art and literature. Instead of juxtaposing white modernism with a “black counter-modernism;’ as Houston Baker does in his important study, Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, I have sought to trace how both are inextricably interrelated. Nor is this book an attempt to define a pure, black aesthetics, as is Richard J. Powe…
The Black Body
The Negroes are conquering Paris. They are conquering Berlin. They have already filled the whole continent with their howls, with their laughter The Revue Negre, which is rousing the tired public in the Theatre des Champs-Elysees to thrills and madness as otherwise only a boxing match can do is symbolic.
Picasso’s “dusty manikins”
Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon is a striking composition of five nude figures, only a few of which are obviously feminine (figure 2.1). The figure in the center has her arms lifted and crossed above her head; her dark eyes stare straight ahead with a blank expression. She and the figure immediately to her left flaunt their nudity, but the leftmost figure is a more staid observer of the scene. The fruit dish in the foreground, filled wi…
Whiteman’s Jazz
Some may start with an enthusiasm for music of the jazz type, but they cannot go far there, for jazz is peculiarly of an inbred, feeble-stock race, incapable of development. In any case, the people for whom it is meant could not understand it if it did develop. Jazz is sterile. It is all right for fun, or as a mild anodyne, like tobacco. But its lack of rhythmical variety (necessitated by its special purpose), its brevity, its repetitiveness and …
The Black Book
It is an insult to the great Caucasian race, the father of all the arts and sciences, to compare it to that black and kinky race which lived in a state of black and ignorant savagery until the white race seized it and lifted it to its present position. The African with his love of color, warmth, rhythm and the whole sensuous life, might, if emotionally liberated, do interesting things to a “Nordic” stock, so bustling and busy, so preoccupied with…
Studies In Black And White
In Hemingway’s novel The Garden of Eden, the blonde protagonist Catherine tries to make herself darker and darker to attract her husband sexually and to distinguish herself from other white people. This kind of Africanism, Toni Morrison argues in Playing in the Dark, conflates blackness with sex, chaos, and madness. But the underlying function of imagining an “Africanist other” is really, according to Morrison, “an extraordinary meditation on the…
Conclusion: Modernism Reconsidered
Subject US Cultural History American Music African American History Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Title Pages
Primitivist Modernism: Black Culture and the Origins of Transatlantic Modernism
This book offers a bold new account of modernism. By focusing on cubism, primitivist-modernism, jazz, and Josephine Baker’s performance, Lemke demonstrates that black art exerted a crucial if masked presence in both Euro-American high art and popular culture. American and European modernism owe much of their symbolic capital to the black cultural other. Black American artists, for their part, also relied on Euro-American American models. By reapp…
Berlin and Boundaries: Sollen Versus Geschehen
Research Article| August 01 2000 Berlin and Boundaries: sollen versus geschehen Sieglinde Lemke Sieglinde Lemke Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2000) 27 (3): 45–78. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-27-3-45 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citati…
Primitivist Modernism: Black Culture and the Origins of Transatlantic Modernism
“Of the Coming of John”
On June 22, 1903, George White of Wilmington, Delaware, was at the workhouse while the pastor of Olivet Presbyterian Church was giving a sermon. Suddenly, several members of the community broke in to abduct Mr. White, who was actually a black man accused of rape and murder. He was tied to a stake, burned, and riddled with bullets. When the Chamber of Commerce of Wilmington met a few days later, it refused to pass a resolution condemning the lynch…
The Cambridge Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois was the pre-eminent African American intellectual of the twentieth century. As a pioneering historian, sociologist and civil rights activist, and as a novelist and autobiographer, he made the problem of race central to an understanding of the United States within both national and transnational contexts; his masterwork The Souls of Black Folk (1903) is today among the most widely read and most often quoted works of American liter…
Class Divisions in Serial Television
This book brings the emergent interest in social class and inequality to the field of television studies. It reveals how the new visibility of class matters in serial television functions aesthetically and examines the cultural class politics articulated in these programmes. This ground-breaking volume argues that reality and quality TV’s intricate politics of class entices viewers not only to grapple with previously invisible socio-economic real…
Inequality, Poverty and Precarity in Contemporary American Culture
This book analyzes the discourse generated by pundits, politicians, and artists to examine how poverty and the income gap is framed through specific modes of representation. Set against the dichotomy
Art (11 works) · Art history (9 works) · Race, History, and American Society (6 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · White (mutation) (4 works)