Rewriting the Genealogy of Minstrelsy for Modernity
Cry and Sing, Walk and Rage, Scream and Dance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5246366 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michèle Mendelssohn (0000-0003-0487-5536, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 127-139 |
| Publication date | 2015-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African American Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1062-4783 • E-ISSN: 1945-6182 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/afa.2015.0008 |
| OpenAlex | W1210600327 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 27 |
W. E. B. Du Bois's Dark Princess (1928) pointedly uses Spirituals and dandyism to interrogate cultural hierarchies. This essay highlights the shared genealogy between early twentieth-century African American writing and two bifurcating branches of nineteenth-century dandyism: the European tradition of Baudelaire and Wilde and the blackface tradition of the minstrel show. Tracing these lines of transmission reveals an unexamined embranchment of literary modernity's family tree and demonstrates how Du Bois's novel repurposes this legacy for the twentieth century
Art · Art history · Blackface · Dance · Genealogy · Hollywood · Literature · Modernity · French Literature and Poetry · History · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society · Theater, Performance, and Music History
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Strange Affinities
Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance
Love and Theft
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |