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Negro anthology / made by Nancy Cunard, 1931-1933.

By:

Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965 [compiler.]

Contributor(s):

London : Published by Nancy Cunard at Wishart & Co., 9 John Street, 1934Colchester, London & Eton : The Ballantyne Press : Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co., Ltd.Description: viii, 854, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations (including portraits, facsimiles) maps (1 folded) ; 32 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

O 301.45 Cun

Contents:

America.--Negro stars.--Music.--Poetry.--West Indies and South America.--Europe.--Africa.

Action note:

120597 Charm

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	National Library of Jamaica	Daphne Douglas Reading Room	O 301.45 Cun (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		1000000030680
Books	OCLC Data	Unknown	O 301.45 Cun (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		0000000003030

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"It was necessary to make this book--and I think in this manner, an Anthology of some 150 voices of both races--for the recording of the struggles and achievements, the persecutions and the revolts against them, of the Negro peoples"--Foreword.

Extensively illustrated with halftone photographs of people, documents, art, music.

Includes one folded map, bound in "Africa" section, with title "Ethnographical map of Negro Africa, printed in red and blue.

"As a manifesto of her sympathies for black liberation and communist politics, Nancy Cunard’s Negro Anthology (1934) represents a complex image of (3z(Bthe Negro(3y (Bwith contributions from (3z(Bsome 150 voices of both races.(3y (BThe enormous book (855 pages) was not widely distributed at the time of its publication and it has never been republished in its entirety, yet it represents a major collection of the leading figures of the African Diaspora, artistic and literary avant-garde and left in the 1930s. Although it has been claimed as an end point to the Harlem Renaissance, its impact on thinking about African art has been largely underestimated;" see Shanahan, M. G. "Visualizing Africa in Nancy Cunard's Negro Anthology (1934)." Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, vol. 6 no. 2, 2005. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/cch.2005.0046

Contains music.

Includes bibliographical references.

America.--Negro stars.--Music.--Poetry.--West Indies and South America.--Europe.--Africa.

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