Negro Anthology by Nancy Cunard (book)

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Negro Anthology (book) by Nancy Cunard. Negro Anthology is the poetic-political work of a woman. Poet, collector of non-Western art, model, editor, and journalist, Nancy Cunard embodies the modernity of the 1920s and creates a unique bridge between the Anglo-Saxon and French avant-gardes. The texts by the French-speaking authors (Crevel, Peret, etc.) are translated by Beckett. The 155 authors of the Negro Anthology are Black, white, women, men, politically engaged or not, athletes, journalists, anthropologists, historians, writers, poets, musicians, singers, academics, and activists. Some of them are colonized, discriminated against, and segregated.

912 pages – facsimile reissue with an expanded English/French critical essay. Preface by Mamadou Diouf (Columbia University). Introduction and biographical notes by Sarah Frioux-Salgas (Musée du quai Branly). 870 facsimile pages, 155 contributors, 230 texts, over 300 documents. Format: 24.5 x 31 cm. 42 pages of introduction and biographical notes. Hardcover in brown linen with iron-on branding. Very good condition.

Printed in 1934 in 1,000 copies, very little distributed, never reprinted in its entirety, La Negro, a veritable documentary collage, blends popular culture, sociology, politics, history, and art history. La Negro brings together archives, reports, press and book excerpts, photographs, statistics, political speeches, proverbs, leaflets, poems, and more, expressing the reality of Black conditions in the Americas, Africa, and Europe in the 1930s.

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