Black Land (eBook)

Imperial Ethiopianism and African America

Nadia Nurhussein (Autor)

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2019
280 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19413-4 (ISBN)

Infos

The first book to explore how African American writing and art engaged with visions of Ethiopia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesAs the only African nation, with the exception of Liberia, to remain independent during the colonization of the continent, Ethiopia has long held significance for and captivated the imaginations of African Americans. In Black Land, Nadia Nurhussein delves into nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American artistic and journalistic depictions of Ethiopia, illuminating the increasing tensions and ironies behind cultural celebrations of an African country asserting itself as an imperial power.Nurhussein navigates texts by Walt Whitman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Pauline Hopkins, Harry Dean, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, George Schuyler, and others, alongside images and performances that show the intersection of African America with Ethiopia during historic political shifts. From a description of a notorious 1920 Star Order of Ethiopia flag-burning demonstration in Chicago to a discussion of the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie as Time magazine's Man of the Year for 1935, Nurhussein illuminates the growing complications that modern Ethiopia posed for American writers and activists. American media coverage of the African nation exposed a clear contrast between the Pan-African ideal and the modern reality of Ethiopia as an antidemocratic imperialist state: Did Ethiopia represent the black nation of the future, or one of an inert and static past?Revising current understandings of black transnationalism, Black Land presents a well-rounded exploration of an era when Ethiopia's presence in African American culture was at its height.

Autor

Nadia Nurhussein is associate professor of English and Africana studies at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Rhetorics of Literacy: The Cultivation of American Dialect Poetry.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.9.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 17 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Abyssinian Baptist Church • Addis Ababa • Africa • African Americans • Amharic • Ancient history • Anecdote • Anti-Imperialism • Askari • Autobiography • Barbarism (linguistics) • Battle of Adwa • Biography • black people • British Empire • Caricature • Civilization • Claude McKay • Colonization • colored • Costume • curator • Dreadnought hoax • Edward Gibbon • empire-building • Eritrea • Ethiopia • Ethiopian Empire • etymology • Flag of Ethiopia • formality • George V • G. (novel) • Haile Selassie • Haile Selassie Gugsa • Headline • howard university • Ideology • Illustration • imperialism • Italian Armed Forces • Italians • James Weldon Johnson • Johns Hopkins University • Kebra Nagast • Langston Hughes • Lecture • letter to the editor • Liberia • Literature • Living Newspaper • Majesty • Marc Bloch • Marcus Garvey • Menelik II • Meroë • Militarism • Modernity • monarchism • Monarchy • Mr. • narrative • Nationality • newspaper • Nobility • Of One Blood (novel) • Orientalism • pan-Africanism • paul laurence dunbar • Poetry • Potentate • Prince Alemayehu • Publication • Queen of Sheba • Rastafari • Reuel • Ruler • S. (Dorst novel) • Second Italo-Ethiopian War • Slavery • Solomon • Sovereignty • stanza • Superiority (short story) • Technology • THE CHICAGO DEFENDER • The Negro Speaks of Rivers • The Newspaper • The New York Times • The Other Hand • transnationalism • Travels (book) • Turban • Wealth • W. E. B. Du Bois • white supremacy • Woolf • World War I • Writing • Yale University
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19413-0 / 0691194130
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19413-4 / 9780691194134