Title Black USA and Spain : shared memories in the 20th century / edited by Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego

Published New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 291 pages) : illustrations Series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature Ser Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature. Contents African Americans and Spaniards: "Caught in an inescapable network of mutuality" / Rosalia Cornejo-Parriego -- pt. 1: All that jazz: translation, fascination, and anxiety -- Reading the Harlem Renaissance in Spanish: translation, African American culture, and the Spanish avant-garde / Evelyn Scaramella -- Jazz and the 1920s Spanish flappers: "Las Sinsombrero" / M. Rocio Cobo-Piñero -- Josephine Baker in Spain: the ambivalent reception of an African American female superstar / Laurence E. Prescott and Rosalia Cornejo-Parriego -- pt. 2: Transnational readings of the Spanish Civil War -- "Not valid for Spain": Pan-Africanism, sanctuary, and the Spanish Civil War / Karen W. Martin -- Salaria Kea and the Spanish Civil War: memoirs of A Negro Nurse in Republican Spain / Carmen Cañete Quesada -- From Juan, el Negro to invisible heroes: diverging perspectives on African Americans in the Spanish Civil War / Nicole D. Price -- "Negroes were not strange to Spain": Langston Hughes and the Spanish "context" / Isabel Soto -- pt. 3: Gazing at each other in Franco's Spain -- Black problems for white travelers: the representation of African Americans in early Francoist New York travel narratives / David Miranda-Barreiro -- Arriba and the black civil rights movement: time to mend fences for time for revenge? / Rosalia Cornejo-Parriego -- Imagining soul from Barcelona: Jordi Longarón and Friday Foster / Albert Villamandos -- In search of Chester Himes in Spain: three women, three landscapes / María Frías -- Conclusion: Looking ahead to the next chapters / Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego Summary During the 20th-century, Spaniards and African-Americans shared significant cultural memories forged by the profound impact that various artistic and historical events had on each other. Addressing three crucial periods (the Harlem Renaissance and Jazz Age, the Spanish Civil War, and Franco's dictatorship), this collection of essays explores the transnational bond and the intercultural exchanges between these two communities, using race as a fundamental critical category. The study of travelogues, memoirs, documentaries, interviews, press coverage, comics, literary works, music, and performances by iconic figures such as Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes, and Ramn Gmez de la Serna, as well as the experiences of ordinary individuals such as African American nurse Salaria Kea, invite an examination of the ambiguities and paradoxes that underlie this relationship: among them, the questionable and, at times, surprising racial representations of blacks in Spanish avant-garde texts and in the press during the years of Franco's dictatorship; African Americans very unique view of the Spanish Civil War in light of their racial identity; and the oscillation between fascination and anxiety when these two communities look at each other Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego received her PhD in Hispanic Literatures from Penn State University, and is currently Professor of Spanish at the University of Ottawa (Canada). She is the author of Entre mujeres. Política de la amistad y el deseo en la narrativa española contemporǹea (Biblioteca Nueva, 2007) and the editor of the collection of essays, Memoria colonial e inmigración. La negritud en la España posfranquista (Bellaterra, 2007). She has also co-edited a 2010 special issue of the Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispǹicos entitled "Queer Space" and the collection of essays Un hispanismo para el siglo XXI. Ensayos de crítica cultural (Biblioteca Nueva, 2011). Her research project on women intellectuals in the press during Spain's Transition to democracy was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Part of this project is her edition of writer Ana María Moix's journalistic texts, Semblanzas e impertinencias (Laetoli, 2016). She was also editor-in-chief of the Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispǹicos (2014-2018) Description based on print version record Subject Collective memory -- Spain African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century Spaniards -- Intellectual life -- 20th century African Americans -- Spain -- History -- 20th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. African Americans African Americans -- Intellectual life Collective memory International relations Spaniards -- Intellectual life SUBJECT Spain -- Relations -- United States United States -- Relations -- Spain Subject Spain United States Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book Author Cornejo-Parriego, Rosalía V., editor. ISBN 9780429595516 0429595514 9780429060427 0429060424 9780429594229 0429594224 9780429592935 0429592930

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