[:en]Editing the Harlem Renaissance
Tuesday 17 May, 2pm UK
(Online Event)

‘Editing the Harlem Renaissance’
In this special online event, Dr Rachel Farebrother and Dr Miriam Thaggert discuss co-editing A History of the Harlem Renaissance (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930 (CUP, 2022).
The Cambridge History of the Harlem Renaissance presents new essays that explore the unprecedented flowering of African American cultural expression in the 1920s and 1930s that is now known as the Harlem Renaissance. In its attention to a wide range of genres and forms – from the roman à clef and the bildungsroman to dance and book illustrations – the volume seeks to at once encapsulate and analyze the eclecticism of Harlem Renaissance cultural expression. It takes stock of nearly a hundred years of “Harlem Renaissance studies” and considers what the future augurs for the study of “the New Negro.”
African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930 presents original essays that map ideological, historical, and cultural shifts in the 1920s. Complicating the familiar reading of the 1920s as a decade that began with a spectacular boom and ended with disillusionment and bust, the collection explores the range and diversity of Black cultural production. Emphasizing a generative contrast between the ephemeral qualities of periodicals, clothes, and décor and the relative fixity of canonical texts, the volume captures in its dynamics a cultural movement that was fluid and expansive.
Miriam Thaggert is Associate Professor of African American Literature at SUNY-Buffalo. She is the author of Images of Black Modernism: Verbal and Visual Strategies of the Harlem Renaissance (University of Massachusetts Press, 2010). With Rachel Farebrother, she is co-editor of A History of the Harlem Renaissance (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930 (CUP, 2022).  Her essays have appeared in African American ReviewAmerican QuarterlyAmerican Literary HistoryFeminist Modernist StudiesMeridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, and the edited volume New Modernist Studies. Her new monograph, Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad (University of Illinois) will be published in June, 2022.
Rachel Farebrother is a Senior Lecturer in American Studies at Swansea University. She is the author of The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance (Ashgate, 2009). Her essays have appeared in Comparative American StudiesJournal of American StudiesMELUSModernism/modernity, and various edited collections. With Miriam Thaggert (SUNY-Buffalo), she has co-edited The History of the Harlem Renaissance (CUP, 2021) and African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930 (CUP, 2022).
REGISTER HERE[:cy]Editing the Harlem Renaissance
Dydd Mawrth 17 Mai, 2pm DU
(Digwyddiad Ar-lein)
‘Editing the Harlem Renaissance
Yn y digwyddiad arbennig ar-lein hwn, bydd Dr Rachel Farebrother a Dr Miriam Thaggert yn trafod cyd-olygu A History of the Harlem Renaissance (Cambridge University Press, 2021) ac African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930 (CUP, 2022).
Mae’r Cambridge History of the Harlem Renaissance yn cyflwyno ysgrifau newydd sy’n archwilio blodeuo digynsail mynegiant diwylliannol Affricanaidd Americanaidd yn y 1920au a’r 1930au sy’n cael ei adnabod erbyn hyn fel Adfywiad Harlem. Wrth roi sylw i amrywiaeth eang o genres a ffurfiau – o’r roman à clef a’r bildungsroman i ddawns a darluniadau llyfr – mae’r gyfrol hon yn ceisio, ar yr un pryd, rychwantu a dadansoddi eclectigiaeth mynegiant diwylliannol Adfywiad Harlem. Mae’n archwilio bron canrif o “astudiaethau Adfywiad Harlem” ac yn ystyried beth mae’r dyfodol yn ei argoeli ar gyfer astudio’r “Negro Newydd”.
Mae African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930 yn cyflwyno ysgrifau gwreiddiol sy’n olrhain datblygiadau ideolegol, hanesyddol a diwylliannol yn y 1920au. Gan gymhlethu’r dehongliad cyfarwydd o’r 1920au fel degawd a ddechreuodd gyda ffyniant rhyfeddol ac a ddaeth i ben gyda dadrithio a dirwasgiad, mae’r casgliad yn archwilio ehangder ac amrywiaeth allbwn diwylliannol y gymuned ddu. Gan bwysleisio cyferbyniad cynhyrchiol rhwng rhinweddau byrhoedlog cyfnodolion, dillad a décor a sefydlogrwydd cymharol testunau’r canon, mae’r gyfrol yn disgrifio dynameg mudiad diwylliannol a oedd yn hylif ac yn eang.
Mae Miriam Thaggert yn Athro Cysylltiol mewn Llenyddiaeth Affricanaidd America yn SUNY-Buffalo. Hi yw awdur Images of Black Modernism:Verbal and Visual Strategies of the Harlem Renaissance (University of Massachusetts Press, 2010). Ar y cyd â Rachel Farebrother, mae’n gyd-olygydd A History of the Harlem Renaissance ( Cambridge University Press, 2021) ac African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930 (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Mae ei thraethodau wedi ymddangos yn African American Review, American Quarterly, American Literary History, Feminist Modernist Studies, Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, a’r gyfrol a olygwyd, New Modernist Studies. Cyhoeddir ei monograff newydd, Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad (Prifysgol Illinois) ym mis Mehefin, 2022.
Mae Rachel Farebrother yn Uwch-ddarlithydd mewn Astudiaethau Americanaidd ym Mhrifysgol Abertawe. Hi yw awdur The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance (Ashgate, 2009). Mae ei thraethodau wedi ymddangos yn Comparative American Studies, Journal of American Studies, MELUS, Modernism/modernity, a chasgliadau amrywiol a olygwyd.  Ar y cyd â Miriam Thaggert (SUNY-Buffalo), mae hi wedi cyd-olygu The History of the Harlem Renaissance (Cambridge University Press, 2021) ac African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930 (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
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