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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Sharpley-Whiting, Tracey Denean
Titre(s) : Bricktop's Paris [Texte imprimé] : African American women in Paris between the two World Wars / T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Publication : Albany : SUNY press (State university of New York press), cop. 2015
Description matérielle : xv, 377 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Comprend : The other Americans, 1919-1939 ; Les Dames, grand and small, of Montmartre : the
Paris of Bricktop ; The Gotham-Montparnasse exchange ; Women of the Petit Boulevard
: the artist's haven ; Black Paris : cultural politics and prose ; "Homeward tug
at a poet's heart" : the return ; Appendix: "Negro Dance," Opus 25, No. 1 / Nora
Douglas Holt ; Gained in translation? / Alice Randall ; History's marginalia, autofictional
mysteries, and a fondness for matters French / T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting ; The autobiography
of Ada "Bricktop" Smith, or Miss Baker regrets / Ada "Bricktop" Smith and T. Denean
Sharpley-Whiting.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-372) and index
Tells the fascinating story of African American women who traveled to France to seek
freedom of expression. During the Jazz Age, France became a place where an African
American woman could realize personal freedom and creativity, in narrative or in performance,
in clay or on canvas, in life and in love. These women were participants in the life
of the American expatriate colony, which included F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein,
and Cole Porter, and they commingled with bohemian avant-garde writers and artists
like Picasso, Breton, Colette, and Matisse. Bricktop's Paris introduces the reader
to twenty-five of these women and the city they encountered. Following this nonfiction
account, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting provides a fictionalized autobiography of Ada
"Bricktop" Smith, which brings the players from the world of nonfiction into a Paris
whose elegance masks a thriving underworld.--Publisher website
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : African American women in Paris between the two world wars
Sujet(s) : Bricktop (1894-1984)
Noires américaines -- Paris (France) -- 1900-1945
Vie artistique -- Paris (France) -- 1900-1945
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781438455013. - ISBN 1438455011. - ISBN 9781438455020 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45279118g
Notice n° :
FRBNF45279118
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