Hearing the hurt [electronic resource] : rhetoric, aesthetics, and politics of the New Negro Movement / Eric King Watts.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Hearing the hurt -- Of beauty and death : W.E.B. Du Bois's Darkwater -- The last and best gift of Africa : Du Bois, Dewey, and the pragmatic production of a Black public -- Negro youth speaks : Alain Locke and the new Negro -- A lampblacked Anglo-Saxon : George Schuyler and Langston Hughes in the nation -- All art is propaganda : the politics of a new Negro aesthetics -- Paul's committed suicide : a utopist tragedy in Wallace Thurman's Infants of the spring -- You mean you don't want me, 'Rene?" : anxiety, desire, and madness in Nella Larsen's Passing.

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