Beckett in black and red the translations for Nancy Cunard's Negro (1934)

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 (Added Author).

Summary: "In 1934, Nancy Cunard published Negro: An Anthology, which brought together more than two hundred contributions, serving as a plea for racial justice, an expose of black oppression, and a hymn to black achievement and endurance. The anthology stands as a virtual ethnography of 1930s racial, historic, artistic, political, and economic culture. Samuel Beckett, a close friend of the flamboyant and unconventional Cunard, translated nineteen of the contributions for Negro, constituting Beckett's largest single prose publication." "Beckett has traditionally been viewed as an apolitical postmodernist rather than as a willing and major participant in Negro's racial, political, and aesthetic agenda. In Beckett in Black and Red, Friedman reevaluates Beckett's contribution to the project, reconciling the humanism of his life and work and valuing him as a man deeply engaged with the greatest public issues of his time."--Jacket.

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ISBN: 9780813121291 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0813121299 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780913156293
ISBN: 0813161622
ISBN: 9780813161624
Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 pages).
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Publisher: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2000.

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General Note:	CatMonthString:june.15 Multi-user. Contains Samuel Beckett's English translations of nineteen French essays and poems originally published in Negro : an anthology compiled by Nancy Cunard in 1934.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Translations / Samuel Beckett -- "The Best Negro Jazz Orchestras," / Robert Goffin -- "Armstrong," / Ernst Moerman -- "Hot Jazz," / Robert Goffin -- "Summary of the History of Hayti," / Jenner Bastien -- "A Note on Haytian Culture," / Ludovic Morin Lacombe -- "The King of Gonaives," / Jacques Boulenger -- "The Child in Guadeloupe," / E. Flavia-Leopold -- "Black and White in Brazil," / Benjamin Peret -- "Sambo without Tears," / Georges Sadoul -- "Murderous Humanitarianism," -- "Races and Nations," / Leon Pierre-Quint -- "The Negress in the Brothel," / Rene Crevel -- "A Short Historical Survey of Madagascar," / J.J. Rabearivelo -- "The Ancient Bronzes of Black Africa," / Charles Ratton -- "Essay on Styles in the Statuary of the Congo," / Henri Lavachery -- "Magic and Initiation among the Peoples of Ubanghi-Shari," / B.P. Feuilloley -- "'Primitive' Life and Mentality," / Raymond Michelet -- "A Negro Empire: Belgium," / E. Stiers -- "French Imperialism at Work in Madagascar," / Georges Citerne, Francis Jourdain -- Negro: An Anthology (1934): Contents -- Contributors to Negro Whose Work Beckett Translated -- Extant French Originals of the Beckett Translations: -- "La Negresse des Bordels" / Rene Crevel -- "La magie et l'initiation chez les peuples de l'Oubanghi-Shari" / B[ernard] P. Feuilloley -- "Essai sur les styles dans la statuaire du Congo" / Henri Lavachery -- "Armstrong," / Ernst Moerman -- "Noirs sur blancs. Introduction. (Fragment)" / Benjamin Peret -- "Races et Nations" / Leon Pierre-Quint.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Language Note:	English and French.
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve