The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke

基本信息

Hardcover: 944頁

出版社: Oxford University Press; 1 (2018年2月1日)

語種： English

ISBN-10: 019508957X

ISBN-13: 978-0195089578

產品尺寸及重量: 164 x 237 x 56mm | 1,432g

書籍簡介

2018年美國國家圖書獎*非虛構獎

2019年普利策傳記獎

這部作品講述了美國黑人文藝復興之父阿蘭·洛克的一生，包括他成為第一位獲得羅氏獎學金的黑人學者、在哈佛大學取得博士學位以及之後的漫長學術歷程。此外，他還是爵士時代裏與黑人文學聯繫最為緊密的學術界人士，並將非洲文學及藝術創作推廣為了美國現代主義不可缺少的組成部分。斯圖瓦特教授不僅追溯了洛克的生平，還向讀者展現了他的私人生活，將他與母親、朋友的相處以及同性戀的身份公之於世。

在《新黑人·阿蘭·洛克的一生》中，傑弗裏·斯圖爾特(Jeffrey C.Stewart)提供了哈萊姆文藝復興之父阿蘭·洛克的權威傳記，其依據是他現有的主要生活來源，以及對那些認識他的人的採訪。他講述了洛克的教育，包括他成為第一位非洲裔美國人羅茲學者，並在哈佛大學獲得哲學博士學位，以及他作為霍華德大學教授的長期職業生涯。

Winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro -- the creative African Americans whose art, literature, music, and drama would inspire Black people to greatness. 

In The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally. He narrates the education of Locke, including his becoming the first African American Rhodes Scholar and earning a PhD in philosophy at Harvard University, and his long career as a professor at Howard University. Locke also received a cosmopolitan, aesthetic education through his travels in continental Europe, where he came to appreciate the beauty of art and experienced a freedom unknown to him in the United States. And yet he became most closely associated with the flowering of Black culture in Jazz Age America and his promotion of the literary and artistic work of African Americans as the quintessential creations of American modernism. In the process he looked to Africa to find the proud and beautiful roots of the race. Shifting the discussion of race from politics and economics to the arts, he helped establish the idea that Black urban communities could be crucibles of creativity. Stewart explores both Locke's professional and private life, including his relationships with his mother, his friends, and his white patrons, as well as his lifelong search for love as a gay man. 

Stewart's thought-provoking biography recreates the worlds of this illustrious, enigmatic man who, in promoting the cultural heritage of Black people, became -- in the process -- a New Negro himself.

作者簡介

傑弗裏·C·斯圖爾特是加州大學聖塔芭芭拉分校研究黑人文化的教授。《新黑人：阿蘭·洛克的一生》是一部關於哈萊姆文藝復興之父阿蘭·洛克生平的傳記。評委認為，斯圖爾特巧妙地利用了洛克的檔案和書信，闡明瞭洛克作為一個同性戀勇敢生活的意志，以及洛克是如何深受其人際關係的影響的。《新黑人》闡釋了洛克對藝術美的信念，以及他把非裔美國人的文學和藝術作品作為美國現代主義的典型創作加以推廣。

Jeffrey C. Stewart is a professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen and 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African American History.