Negro Anthology by Nancy Cunard – Complete Facsimile Reprint 1934 – Book

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Discover Nancy Cunard‘s Negro Anthology, a major poetic and political work reissued in its entirety in facsimile. Poet, collector of non-Western art, model, editor, and journalist, Nancy Cunard embodies the modernity of the 1920s and forges a unique bridge between the Anglo-Saxon and French avant-gardes. Texts by Francophone authors (Crevel, Péret, etc.) are translated by Beckett. The 155 contributors to 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, or segregated. Please allow two weeks for shipping.

This facsimile reissue, augmented by a bilingual English/French critical text, includes a preface by Mamadou Diouf (Columbia University) as well as an introduction and biographical notes by Sarah Frioux-Salgas (Musée du Quai Branly). ISBN 9782376280392, 912 facsimile pages, 155 contributors, 230 texts, and over 300 documents. 12.20×9.64″ (31 x 24.5 cm) format. 42 pages of introduction and biographical notes. Hardcover binding in brown linen with gilt foil stamping. Very good condition.

Printed in a limited edition of only 1,000 copies in 1934 and with very limited distribution, never reprinted in its entirety, Negro Anthology is a true documentary collage that blends popular culture, sociology, politics, history, and art history. It brings together archives, reports, press and book excerpts, photographs, statistics, political speeches, proverbs, pamphlets, poems, and much more, to express the reality of Black conditions in the Americas, Africa, and Europe in the 1930s.

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