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- catalog abstract ""The 1920s have long been known as an era of negrophilism in France, a time when everything associated with blacks and black culture became fashionable. The exotic appeal of the negre manifested itself in a variety of ways - from the popularity of jazz and celebrity of Josephine Baker to a flourishing of love across the color line - and contributed to the reputation of France as a racially tolerant society. Yet on closer scrutiny, Brett A. Berliner argues, it becomes clear that French attitudes toward blacks were at best ambivalent and the ideal of racial tolerance more myth than reality." "Through an analysis of popular imagery, exotic fiction, travel writing, and other cultural texts, Berliner shows how the representation and reception of blacks in post-World War I France embodied competing, at times contradictory, perceptions. On the one hand, African and Caribbean blacks were depicted as a source of cultural renewal and a means for celebrating life and sexuality. On the other hand, interracial relationships were seen as a threat to French civilization, a notion reinforced by grotesque advertisements, ethnographic exhibitions, and other aesthetically repulsive images of "primitive" blacks."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12557029.
- catalog coverage "France Race relations History 20th century.".
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""The 1920s have long been known as an era of negrophilism in France, a time when everything associated with blacks and black culture became fashionable. The exotic appeal of the negre manifested itself in a variety of ways - from the popularity of jazz and celebrity of Josephine Baker to a flourishing of love across the color line - and contributed to the reputation of France as a racially tolerant society. Yet on closer scrutiny, Brett A. Berliner argues, it becomes clear that French attitudes toward blacks were at best ambivalent and the ideal of racial tolerance more myth than reality."".
- catalog description ""Through an analysis of popular imagery, exotic fiction, travel writing, and other cultural texts, Berliner shows how the representation and reception of blacks in post-World War I France embodied competing, at times contradictory, perceptions. On the one hand, African and Caribbean blacks were depicted as a source of cultural renewal and a means for celebrating life and sexuality. On the other hand, interracial relationships were seen as a threat to French civilization, a notion reinforced by grotesque advertisements, ethnographic exhibitions, and other aesthetically repulsive images of "primitive" blacks."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-265) and index.".
- catalog description "Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 -- Chapter 1. -- Tirailleurs Sengalais and the Making of the Grand Enfant 9 -- Chapter 2. -- Love and the Color Line 37 -- Chapter 3. -- Between Exoticism and Committed Literature -- Batouala and the Struggle over the Black Soul 71 -- Chapter 4. -- "Savages" in the Garden -- The Negre on Exhibition 107 -- Chapter 5. -- A Multivalent Sign -- The Black Other in Colonial Photographs and Advertisements 123 -- Chapter 6. -- Mapping Boundaries of the Self and the Other -- Lucie Cousturier and Andre Gide on Voyage in Africa 157 -- Chapter 7. -- La Croisiere noire -- Heroism-in a Citroen! 189 -- Chapter 8. -- Ethno-Eroticism and Its Discontents -- From the Bal negre to Paul Morand's Magie noire 205 -- Conclusion 235.".
- catalog extent "xii, 273 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Ambivalent desire.".
- catalog identifier "1558493565 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Ambivalent desire.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press,".
- catalog relation "Ambivalent desire.".
- catalog spatial "France Race relations History 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "France".
- catalog subject "944/.00496 21".
- catalog subject "Blacks France History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "DC34.5.B55 B47 2002".
- catalog tableOfContents "Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 -- Chapter 1. -- Tirailleurs Sengalais and the Making of the Grand Enfant 9 -- Chapter 2. -- Love and the Color Line 37 -- Chapter 3. -- Between Exoticism and Committed Literature -- Batouala and the Struggle over the Black Soul 71 -- Chapter 4. -- "Savages" in the Garden -- The Negre on Exhibition 107 -- Chapter 5. -- A Multivalent Sign -- The Black Other in Colonial Photographs and Advertisements 123 -- Chapter 6. -- Mapping Boundaries of the Self and the Other -- Lucie Cousturier and Andre Gide on Voyage in Africa 157 -- Chapter 7. -- La Croisiere noire -- Heroism-in a Citroen! 189 -- Chapter 8. -- Ethno-Eroticism and Its Discontents -- From the Bal negre to Paul Morand's Magie noire 205 -- Conclusion 235.".
- catalog title "Ambivalent desire : the exotic black other in jazz-age France / Brett A. Berliner.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".